Spain Train Crash Kills 10, With 544 Passengers Aboard Two Trains

A high-speed train hit the back of another train that had stopped in Toledo province on Wednesday, derailing two cars and killing at least 10 people, authorities said. Esther Padilla, spokeswoman for the Castilla La Mancha region, confirmed 10 deaths and said "that number will surely rise."

Rail operator ADIF said the crash happened Wednesday morning and suspended service between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia. Padilla told state broadcaster TVE that both trains were traveling the same direction from Madrid to Seville when one ran into the tail of the other while it was stationary. The cause is not known.

The collision involved a train from state-owned RENFE and one from private operator IRYO. Padilla said 397 passengers were aboard the RENFE train and 147 aboard the IRYO train. RENFE and IRYO trains were also involved in a deadly crash in January.

Manuel Galán, mayor of the nearby town of Urda, told TVE that passengers were injured and that civil protection authorities asked his town hall to prepare a sports pavilion to treat them. Emiliano García-Page, regional president of Castilla La Mancha, wrote on X that he was heading to the site.

In January, 45 people died in southern Spain when a train left the tracks and struck an oncoming train, the deadliest in the country since a 2013 crash that killed 80 people.