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High speed rail crash leaves at least 68 dead in one of Spain’s worst train disasters

The Independent·Bryony Gooch·1 day ago
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At least 68 people have been killed and 77 injured after two high-speed trains collided in Spain, the country’s second major rail crash this year.

There were 544 people on board the two services between Madrid and Seville when they crashed at around 9am Wednesday morning. The incident is one of Spain’s deadliest rail disasters, and the worst since 78 people were killed when a high-speed train derailed near Santiago de Compostela in 2013.

Passengers were travelling between Madrid and the southern Andalusia region when an express train operated by Iryo was struck by a train operated by Renfe at high speed in Toledo.…

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