Spanish high-speed trains in collision - at least ten dead

A Spanish high-speed train from Madrid bound for Seville has collided from behind with a train south of Toledo, also a high-speed train, reports El País. At least ten people have died according to the government's first estimate, writes El País, while local authorities tell Sky News that the death toll so far is 39.

Eyewitness accounts to the media say that the second train had slowed down a few minutes earlier due to a traffic problem on the line. The hypothesis is that it was stationary at the time of the collision, ABC Sevilla reports, and that the two rear carriages collapsed and that the alarm center could not reach the train driver.