A high-speed train derailed and was hit by another in southern Spain, killing 39 people and injuring more than 120, authorities said Monday, describing the country¡¯s worst train crash in over a decade as ¡°extremely strange.¡±
It was the deadliest train accident since 2013, when 80 people died after a train veered off a curved section of track outside the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela.
The crash happened on Sunday evening when a train operated by rail company Iryo traveling from Malaga to Madrid derailed near Adamuz, crossing onto the other track where it crashed into an oncoming train, which also derailed.
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