@nbcchicago: At least 30 people were killed when two high-speed trains collided in central Spain on Wednesday, sending carriages careering off the tracks. It's the second major accident on the same line in less than a year. Pictures showed several carriages laying on their sides next to the tracks and others at angles, their wheels sheared off. Debris was strewn around the scene off the accident in the countryside near the city of Toledo. The number of dead was confirmed to NBC News by the press office for the Castilla La Mancha region but the death toll is expected to rise as together the two trains were carrying more than 400 passengers. A spokeswoman for the Castilla La Mancha region told local broadcasters that the trains were heading in the same direction from Madrid to Seville when one ran into the tail of the other which had stopped on the line. The crash comes 10 months after a deadly collision in January between high-speed trains run by the same operators, Renfe and Iryo, on the same line between Madrid to Seville. That accident left 45 people dead in southern Spain when a train jumped the track and hit an oncoming train. The January crash was the country’s deadliest since a 2013 crash that killed 80 people. Spain has the largest high-speed rail network in Europe for trains moving more than 155 mph, with more than 1,900 miles of track, according to the European Union.

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Wednesday 28 October 2026 12:50:34 GMT