At least 68 people have been killed and dozens more injured following a high-speed train collision in the province of Toledo, Spain. The disaster occurred when a passenger train rear-ended another south of Madrid, sending carriages tumbling down a rural embankment in what has become one of the country's worst railway tragedies.
The incident involved an Iryo service carrying 146 passengers and a Renfe AVE train carrying 397 passengers, totaling more than 500 people on board. Officials noted that the death toll could continue to rise as emergency crews work to access the deeper sections of the impacted carriages.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez traveled to the crash site and stated that Spain is "grieving," prompting major political parties to suspend general election campaigning. Spain’s transport minister indicated that an initial computer failure caused trains to halt before a subsequent decision by the control centre led to the collision, though a full investigation remains underway.
Emergency responders, military units, and Civil Guard officers were swiftly deployed to the scene to treat the injured and transport patients to local hospitals. The disaster comes less than a year after another fatal high-speed train crash involving the same rail operators in southern Spain killed 46 people in January.
