Name: At least 39 die following train crash in Spain
Uploaded: 2026-01-19T13:43:22.000Z
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39 people have been killed and more than 100 have been injured after a high speed train derailment in Spain.

The back carriage of the train jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and then slammed into an oncoming train.

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So just to show you where this happened, the train was traveling from Malaga to Madrid.

There was about 300 people on board and it departed at 7:41pm local time.

The crash then happened the collision and happened about an hour later.

Let's bring in Sadia, who's got more on this tragic story.

authorities are saying that could rise because they say although all of the survivors have been rescued,

a lot of the bodies remain within that wreckage and they're continuing to work to try and get that.

Now, eyewitnesses who have spoken out about this say that they heard screams.

One person described it like feeling an earthquake just as that train derailed.

The rear part of that train then went onto another track which was in the way of an oncoming train.

And authorities say it is on that oncoming train where they expect the most deaths because that one was traveling at around 124mph.

It's a high speed train and that's the one that seems to have had the most impact.

Eyewitnesses say that people were climbing out of the windows.

They were using those emergency hammers to smash the windows and climb out of them.

Locals were then seen bringing blankets and water.

And the Spanish Red Cross has set up a health a help Center.

Around 39 dead, 170 injured and 75 hospitalizations, of which 15 are thought to be critical.

Between them, both trains had around 500 passengers.

And authorities say that emergency services are the only ones being allowed to go onto that site right now.

So investigators just holding off, but having started some of their investigations.

because the track is straight and it was a flat part of the track where the train derailment happened.

So no obvious reasons of why this happened.

One of the trains was rather relatively new.

It's being reported it had its latest inspection just four days ago.

So authorities saying they're really puzzled about what might have happened, but

they don't expect an answer anytime soon.