Shocking accounts of witnesses to the disaster in Spain. “There were bodies everywhere under the trains.”

More information is coming from Spain about a train collision that killed dozens of people. The first hypotheses say that human error may have contributed to the disaster. While investigators are securing all evidence, a huge rescue operation is underway between the towns of Los Yebenes and Urda, at the crash site. Spanish media describe that the injured near the accident site are waiting for identification and transport to hospitals. The belongings of people who traveled by train are scattered around - suitcases, medicines, phones.

Rescuers and families are constantly arriving at the scene, looking for information about their loved ones. Local residents also came to help, bringing water and food to the injured.

Witnesses speak of shock and happiness

One of the people traveling on the public carrier's train towards Seville was "El Pais" journalist Antonio Jimenez Barca. He was in the café car when the collision with the second train occurred.

I felt like someone pushed me hard in the back and I hit my head. I don't think I lost consciousness for a moment, Ser told Cadena, adding that he suffered only minor injuries.

The man claims that many passengers are in a state of shock and are simply "staring at nothing." He also talked about his feelings:

At first you don't want to believe it. Then you gradually realize how terrible what happened to you was and how lucky you were, he explained.

Radio Cadena Ser also talked to Eduarda, who traveled on the Iryo train. I was driving with my two cats when suddenly there was sudden braking and I fell forward together with the seat. People started running, some were crying, and bodies were visible everywhere under the trains. Lots of people couldn't get out, there were screams everywhere... A nightmare, she said.

Eduarda considers herself lucky that nothing happened to her, but she knows she will never forget the "horrific screams" she heard: The worst thing was going outside and seeing the scale of what had happened.

The woman said that she still had images in her mind that would be difficult for her to forget: I saw a man with only his legs sticking out because the train was lying on him, people with their faces cut... I saw dead people.

The website eldiario.es quotes the story of Maria Jose, who lives near the place where the disaster occurred. She arrived at the scene to help the injured. She took care of the child of an English woman who could not find her husband after the disaster. Apparently it was terrible, worse than in Adamuz - she said, referring to the accident that occurred in January.

First meetings with families

The slightly injured are transported, among others, to the town of Urda, where shelter points have been established. Among those who ended up there was 65-year-old Juan, who talked to "El Pais". The man suffered a minor head injury, but after treatment he will be able to return home. In Urda he waits for his family to pick him up.

The 65-year-old was on his way to Seville on business and remembers the "huge impact", followed by screams and passengers trying to get out of the vehicle and help others. The person he was traveling with is also doing well, and his family now knows where to look for him. Your whole life flashes before your eyes in a split second and you don't even realize it, he says.