At least 39 killed in high-speed train collision near Adamuz, Spain

At least 39 people were killed and dozens more injured in a collision involving high-speed trains near Adamuz, in southern Spain, survivors and officials said. Passengers described chaotic and hellish scenes after the crash. Survivors posting on social media and interviewed by outlets recounted wrecked cars, falling luggage and screams.

Salvador Jiménez, a journalist with RTVE who said he was a passenger in the first car of one train, said, "There was a moment when it felt like an earthquake." María Vidal told El País that medics rushed to mangled cars and ambulances carried away the dead and injured: "I'm in shock," she said.

Photographs showed cars at odd angles, at least one tipped onto its side, rescue workers on top of wreckage and some survivors climbing out of smashed windows. Officials and local witnesses described bodies thrown from the cars and frantic rescue efforts. "The impact was so severe that we have found bodies hundreds of meters from the impact," Mr.

Moreno, the regional president, said on Spanish radio, the national broadcaster reported. Rafael Ángel Moreno, the mayor of Adamuz, called it "a terrible scene" and said, "People were trying to get out of the train, there were many injured. It was utter chaos.

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