ADAMUZ, Spain, Jan 19 (Reuters) – At least 39 people died in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming one on Sunday night in one of the worst railway accidents in Europe in the past 80 years.
The accident near Adamuz in the province of Cordoba, about 360 km (223 miles) south of Madrid, also injured 122 people, with 12 in intensive care, according to emergency services.
“The train tipped to one side… then everything went dark, and all I heard was screams,” said Ana, a young woman travelling back to Madrid who was being treated at a Red Cross centre in Adamuz. Limping and wrapped in a blanket, her face covered with plasters, she described how she was dragged from the train covered in blood by fellow passengers. Firefighters rescued her pregnant sister from the wreckage and an ambulance took them both to hospital.
“There were people who were fine and others who were very, very badly injured. You had them right in front of you and you knew they were going to die, and you couldn’t do anything,” she told Reuters.
At least 39 people died in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming one on Sunday night.
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