PM Sánchez has promised a review of the country's high-speed rail safety system after a collision near Urda killed at least 69 people and injured more than 100.
A second day of mourning is underway in Spain, with some families still waiting for news about missing loved ones, following Wednesday's high speed train crash that killed 69 people. Some have...
Óscar Puente has been facing calls to resign after two high-speed trains collided earlier in the week, killing at least 69 people.
Spain began three days of mourning on Thursday after its second high-speed rail collision this year killed 69 people and injured scores, with relatives desperately seeking news about their loved...
Spain's second high-speed rail disaster this year, a crash in which one train struck another from behind, killing 68 people, has raised fresh concerns about the safety of the country's rail...
Opposition parties have demanded accountability after 69 people were killed in Spain’s second major railway disaster this year A deadly high-speed train collision in Spain has deepened a political...
Search teams with sniffer dogs continued to look for victims on Thursday morning, a day after the collision in central Spain.
Rescue teams use cranes, dog teams in search for survivors of fatal crash; death toll stands at 68
After a high-speed collision near Toledo, Spain, killed at least 69 people, rail safety experts said the rough consensus that it is best to sit in the middle of a train has its limits.
Was Spain's second major train collision in nine months caused by human error, or did it stem from deeper problems in its once- vaunted high-speed rail network?
Spain's second major train collision this year has sparked debate over whether human error or rail network failures are to blame
After the country’s second major rail disaster in a year, Spaniards were confronting questions about the safety of their once-vaunted rail system.
The transport minister said a judge would investigate controllers’ actions, including authorizing a train to proceed at high speed though another was stalled in front of it.
The collision in Toledo province killed 69 people, with questions over a failed signalling system, traffic controllers’ workload and the impact of increased rail traffic as investigations continue.
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story herePeunte begins by paying tribute to all affected by the incident.He says that "at present, evidence points to a failure within Adif’s...
After the Spain train crash, the Indian Embassy in Madrid issued the emergency helpline number +34 650 339 008, the email cons.madrid@mea.gov.in, and Renfe: 900 10 10 20, and Iryo: 900 001 403
Spanish broadcaster TVE reported that around 1,500 demonstrators gathered outside the Transport Ministry in the capital overnight, demanding that the ministers step down.
Far-right demonstrators clashed with police outside the country’s Transportation Ministry, where they had gathered to call for the prime minister’s resignation.
URDA, Spain (AP) — A high-speed train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks Wednesday in Spain, killing at least 68 people and injuring dozens in the second deadly rail collision...
The train collision in Spain that killed at least 68 people and injured dozens more sparked a protest outside the country's transport ministry. Leigh Kiniry reports.
Authorities have so far blamed both system issues and human error for the accident which claimed 68 lives; Until this year, Spain had not witnessed such fatal incidents on its dedicated high-speed...
Sixty-eight people died and several others were injured after two trains collided in Spain, near Toledo. The crash was caused by a computer system failure and an ‘inexplicable human error’,...
A reported failure in the automatic signalling system had forced trains to stop on the affected stretch.
For India's high-speed rail programme, this highlights that technology is only as robust as its fail-safe protocols
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