Train derailment kills 21 people and injures about 100 others after high-speed trains collide in C\u00f3rdoba province, Spain, according to reports from Sunday evening.<\/b>
\nAt least 21 people were killed and dozens more were injured after a high-speed train derailed and struck another train in southern Spain on Sunday evening, according to reports.
The crash happened at around 6:40 p.m. local time near the town of Adamuz in C\u00f3rdoba province, when the initial derailment forced a second train off the tracks. Roughly 100 people were injured, including 25 with serious injuries, Reuters reported, citing police sources and local media.
One of the train drivers was among those killed, according to Reuters.
Spain\u2019s rail infrastructure operator, Adif, said the Iryo 6189 Malaga-to-Madrid train derailed and crashed onto an adjacent track, causing a second train traveling from Madrid to Huelva to also derail.
The crash happened about 10 minutes after the Iryo train departed C\u00f3rdoba.
The Iryo train was identified as a Freccia 1000 train carrying more than 300 passengers, while the other train was operated by Renfe and had approximately 100 people on board, Reuters reported.
One woman, who said she was a passenger on the Iryo train, described chaotic scenes during the derailment.
„Ten minutes after departing, the train started to shake a lot, and it derailed from coach 6 behind us. The lights went out“, she wrote on X.
Videos posted on social media showed emergency responders assisting people as they climbed out through train windows.
Rail services between Madrid and Andalusia were subsequently suspended, according to Reuters.
The deadly derailment comes just days after a separate rail disaster in Thailand, where at least 22 people were killed when a construction crane collapsed onto a moving passenger train, causing it to derail and catch fire.<\/p>\n