Two high-speed trains, one operated by Renfe and the other by Iryo, are seen after colliding in Urda, Toledo, Spain. (EPA Images pic)URDA: A collision between two high-speed trains south of Madrid killed 30 people today and the toll could rise, regional authorities said in Spain's second such disaster this year.
Images shared by local media showed the wreckage of two trains strewn on the tracks and an embankment as emergency services rushed to the scene, while shocked travellers dragged away their suitcases as they escaped.
The accident in the central region of Castilla-La Mancha comes one month before Socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez, who faced heavy criticism for the first disaster, seeks to overturn unfavourable polls in an early general election.
