Overview
- National broadcaster RTVE, citing security sources, reports 39 deaths and about 123 injured, including several in very serious condition.
- Adif says a Malaga–Madrid Irio train derailed onto the neighboring track where another train was passing, leading to a violent collision.
- Transport Minister Óscar Puente says the force of impact pushed the first two carriages of a Renfe train off the track.
- Emergency units, including the army’s UME, were deployed, a field hospital was set up, and patients were transferred to hospitals in Córdoba and Andújar.
- Videos from the site show a fire and wrecked carriages as rescue operations continue and officials update casualty figures from earlier lower estimates.