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Why the Alvia Victims Were Almost 1h without Attention: the Arrival on Foot of Wounded People Who Emerged "Out of Nowhere" Gave the Alert

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Last Sunday, Adamuz (Córdoba) became the scene of the most serious railway accident in Spain since the derailment of the Alvia train in Santiago de Compostela in 2013. The clash between a high-speed train of the company Iryo and a Alvia de Renfe has left 45 dead, dozens injured and an open investigation that points to both a possible failure in the infrastructure and possible deficiencies in the initial management of the emergency.This is the ch…

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The rail disasters in Spain raise many questions. In Adamuz, the collision between two trains caused 45 deaths. The rescues delayed, arriving more than an hour after the accident. Why such a...

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It is Sunday. It is time to return home. The train circulates normally. Francisco Arroyo puts on YouTube the British heavy metal group Judas Priest. The 57-year-old truck driver Arroyo watches the landscape through the window. A while ago he has placed on the folding table of his seat the last book brought to him by the Magi: Pepe Mujica and the flowers of the guerrilla, an emotional account of the life of the former Uruguayan president. In the …

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Mario Samper was sleeping in his car seat four of the Alvia when he heard a dry impact. He didn’t find it normal. It was the sign that his life was about to change forever, but he still didn’t know that that night would not only have to survive, but he would also bear the responsibility of being the one to alert the world that there was a second invisible train in the dark. Because Mario was the passenger who, almost an hour after the accident, …

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The work in the railway accident area in Adamuz (Córdoba) continues this Friday focused on...

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«We were literally not in any plan. We were totally out of range», relates José María Galán, victim of the sinister

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The Ministry of Transport defends that the warning to emergency services 112 occurred "immediately" after the accident, exactly at 20:00:26 hours on Sunday Emergency services took 35 minutes to reach the A

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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Thursday, January 22, 2026.
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