Spanish Train Disaster Came After Train Ordered to Go in Error: Minister
Investigators are reviewing control-center exchanges after a Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo service, killing at least 68 people and injuring dozens.
- Two trains collided near Madrid on Wednesday morning, killing at least 68 people and injuring 58, according to emergency services in one of Europe's deadliest rail disasters this century.
- Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente said an official in the national railway control center in Madrid 'inexplicably' instructed one high-speed train to proceed along a track where another had stalled.
- Despite the January Adamuz accident that killed 46 people, Puente defended the system, stating, 'We have a safe rail system, comparable to those of other countries in our region.'
- Far-Right Vox leader Santiago Abascal slammed the government, writing, 'I will not rest until this government, which is a criminal organization, is in the dock answering for its crimes.'
- An anonymous Socialist Party lawmaker said the tragedy 'inevitably upends the campaign and deals a blow to Sánchez,' noting the opposition will leverage it as they did the Adamuz accident.
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Human failure and a problem in the signalling system pointed out as cause of the accident. There are rescue teams on site for assistance and recovery of bodies and an urgent appeal for blood donation by Spanish health authorities
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The collision took place on Wednesday morning on the railway line from Madrid to Andalusia. According to the spokesman of the regional government of Castile-La Mancha, the Renfe train, the national company, carried 397 passengers, and that of the private company Iryo, 147 passengers.
Two high-speed passenger trains collided 150 kilometres south of Madrid in Spain this Wednesday morning. The accident caused at least 64 m0rts and dozens of injuries, according to the provisional report, communicated by the authorities at 2.30 p.m. (International).
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