{"id":418591,"date":"2026-01-19T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418591\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:35:08","slug":"night-of-deep-pain-train-collision-in-southern-spain-leaves-21-dead-transport-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418591\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Night of deep pain\u2019: Train collision in southern Spain leaves 21 dead | Transport News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency response teams deploy to assist victims following the high-speed train collision in southern Spain.<\/p>\n

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A collision between two high-speed trains in southern Spain has killed at least 21 people and \u201cseriously\u201d injured 30, according to officials.<\/p>\n

The cause of the crash is not yet known, Spanish Minister of Transport Oscar Puente told reporters at a news conference at Atocha station in Madrid, adding that it was \u201creally strange\u201d that a derailment should have happened on a straight stretch of track. This section of track was renewed in May, he said.<\/p>\n

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The tail end of an evening train between Malaga and Madrid, with some 300 passengers, went off the rails near Cordoba at 7:45pm (18:45 GMT) on Sunday, and slammed into a train with some 200 passengers coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to rail operator ADIF.<\/p>\n

Television Espanola, a public broadcaster, reported that the driver of the train travelling from Madrid to Huelva was among those who died, and that a total of 100 people had been injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirty injured have been taken to hospitals and are in serious condition,\u201d Puente told reporters on Monday, adding that all the injured have now been evacuated to receive care.<\/p>\n

Five mobile intensive care units, four emergency critical care units and numerous ambulances were deployed to the site of the crash, according to Andalusia\u2019s emergency services.<\/p>\n

The on-site services were focused on stabilising the injured before transferring them to hospitals, Juanma Moreno, the president of Andalusia\u2019s regional government, wrote on social media late on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur solidarity and support to all those affected,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

ADIF personnel were also coordinating with emergency services on the ground.<\/p>\n

\"epa12659752Ambulances gather at the Puerta de Atocha train station in Madrid, Spain, 18 January 2026 [Javier Lizon\/EPA]Trains suspended<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday said Spain was enduring a \u201cnight of deep pain\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is a night of deep pain for our country owing to the tragic rail accident in Adamuz,\u201d Sanchez wrote on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to express my sincerest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims. No word can alleviate such great suffering, but I want them to know that the whole country is by their side in this tough moment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Trains travelling from the Andalusia region to Madrid have been suspended, with services from Cordoba, Sevilla, Malaga and Huelva expected to be unavailable through \u201cat least\u201d Monday, the rail body said.<\/p>\n

Salvador Jimenez, a journalist for the public broadcaster RTVE, told the digital outlet Informacion that he had been on board the Malaga train.<\/p>\n

The train\u2019s last two carriages derailed, he said, with the final carriage turning fully onto its side as it landed on the tracks.<\/p>\n

It felt like the train was experiencing an \u201cearthquake\u201d in the moments before the crash, Jimenez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency response teams deploy to assist victims following the high-speed train collision in southern Spain. Published On 18…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3456,43,44,7413,41,39,42,40,2882],"class_list":{"0":"post-418591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-transport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}