Key Highlights
- The accident occurred at around 19:45 local time (1845 GMT) when a train carrying 317 passengers on the Malaga-Madrid route derailed for reasons still unknown near Amaduz, about 20 km from Cordoba, Spanish authorities said.
- The derailed train struck another high-speed train traveling on an adjacent track from Madrid to Huelva, causing the latter to derail.
- Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday voiced deep condolences over the tragedy.
- “Today is a night of deep pain for our country owing to the tragic rail accident in Adamuz,” he wrote on X.
- Spain’s royal family also extended condolences to the families of the victims.