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Spain train disaster

October 29, 2026

A high-speed train collision in central Spain has killed 68 people. The tragedy is the country's second major rail disaster this year.

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Civil guards and investigators work at the site of a train crash between a high speed Renfe AVE train and an Iryo train around 150kms south of Madrid between Urda and Los Yebenes in the province of Toledo
Image: Oscar Del Pozo/AFP

Regional authorities have said that a high-speed train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks in central Spain. Sixty-eight people were killed and dozens more injured.

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