A high-speed practice collision occurred in southern Spain on Sunday evening, leaving a minimum of 39 individuals useless and 123 individuals injured. Here is what the wreckage seemed like in images.
The rail incident occurred at round 7:45 p.m. when a service travelling from Málaga to Madrid’s Atocha Gate derailed close to Adamuz (Córdoba), crossing onto the opposite observe the place one other oncoming practice crashed into it.
Emergency providers work on the website of an Iryo practice that derailed and was hit by one other practice as rescue efforts proceed in Adamuz. (Picture by Jorge GUERRERO / AFP)
The Iryo service was carrying round 300 passengers. In response to Transport Minister Óscar Puente a complete of 30 individuals had been rushed to hospital in critical situation. He additionally confirmed that every one the injured had been evacuated to obtain care.
Horrific studies from survivors inform of the ordeal. One passenger, María José, instructed newspaper El País: “There are various injured, I’m nonetheless shaking. We thought it was a derailment, however after we got here out, we noticed the twisted carriages from the opposite practice that had overturned”. She additionally described how suitcases had been falling out of the racks onto many individuals’s heads.
A girl wipes a tear from her cheek throughout a minute of silence for victims of a practice accident in Adamuz, southern Spain, on January 19, 2026. (Picture by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP)
One other girl described escaping saying: “I rushed out and opened the door with my head”. Ana, an injured passenger instructed reporters from Diario Córdoba that it was like a “horror film”, describing how she barely had time to say goodbye to her pregnant sister earlier than she watched her carriage tip over, the lights exit and screams from inside. Ana was rescued by means of a window and noticed her sister unconscious, so she known as for assist till firefighters arrived to rescue her.
On this nonetheless picture from video taken and launched on January 19, 2026 by the Spain’s Guardia Civil, emergency staff are seen on the website the place a high-speed Iryo practice derailed and was hit by one other practice as rescue efforts proceed in Adamuz, southern Spain, on January 19, 2026.
(Picture by Handout / Guardia Civil / AFP)
Picture by Handout / Guardia Civil / AFP
Picture by Handout / Guardia Civil / AFP
Sources report that round 500 travellers had been stranded in Málaga final evening, and 1000’s extra had been affected right now.
This Monday round 200 trains had been cancelled between Andalusia and Madrid because of the crash, with tickets for buses and flights to the capital snapped up shortly.
Picture: Oscar DEL POZO / AFP
