{"id":454930,"date":"2026-01-19T08:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=454930"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:43:17","slug":"high-speed-trains-collide-after-one-derails-in-southern-spain-killing-at-least-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/high-speed-trains-collide-after-one-derails-in-southern-spain-killing-at-least-21\/","title":{"rendered":"High-speed trains collide after one derails in southern Spain, killing at least 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADAMUZ, (SONNA) \u2014 A high-speed train derailed, jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and slammed into an oncoming train Sunday in southern <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Spain,<\/span> killing at least people 21 and injuring dozens more, the country\u2019s transport minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The tail end of an evening train traveling from Malaga to Madrid with some 300 passengers went off the rails near C\u00f3rdoba at 7:45 p.m. and slammed into a train with some 200 passengers coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to rail operator Adif.<\/p>\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed\">\n<div class=\"HtmlModule\" data-module-tracksubscribe=\"\" data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-module-number=\"3\" data-main-module-number=\"3\"><a id=\"htmlembed-260000\" class=\"AnchorLink\"><\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ap-chart-kRMTy\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/interactives.ap.org\/embeds\/kRMTy\/1\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"596\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Locator map\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"embed-caption\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Spain\u2019s Transport Minister \u00d3scar Puente updated the death toll to 21 after midnight when he said that rescuers had removed all the survivors. But Puente said there could be more victims still to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Andalusia regional President Juanma Moreno said 75 passengers were hospitalized, with most taken to the nearby city of Cordoba, including 15 people with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Red Cross set up a help center in the town of Adamuz, near the crash site, offering assistance to emergency services and people seeking information. Members of Spain\u2019s Civil Guard and Civil Defense were also on site working in the cold, cloudless night. Only emergency services were allowed to approach the crash site.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADAMUZ, (SONNA) \u2014 A high-speed train derailed, jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and slammed into an oncoming train Sunday in southern Spain, killing at least people 21 and injuring dozens more, the country\u2019s transport minister said. The tail end of an evening train traveling from Malaga to Madrid with some 300 passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":454931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-454930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454932,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454930\/revisions\/454932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}