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At least 68 dead in Spain after one high-speed train slams into another stopped on tracks

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At least 68 dead in Spain after one high-speed train slams into another stopped on tracks — Waconia Health news

URDA, Spain (AP) — One high-speed Spanish train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks Wednesday, killing at least 68 people and shredding carriages in the country’s second deadly rail collision this year. The regional government for Castilla La Mancha confirmed the death toll and said another 58 people needed medical treatment in hospital. Rescue workers continue to search in the wreckage for survivors and bodies. The accident comes with memories still fresh of another crash between high-speed trains in southern Spain in January involving trains from the same two companies. Spain’s rail system operator ADIF said the crash occurred Wednesday morning in the province of Toledo, involving two high-speed trains carrying hundreds of passengers and heading in the same direction from the capital Madrid to Seville in southwestern Spain. One train, run by the state-owned RENFE company, ran into the tail of the other train owned by private company IRYO that had stopped, knocking two

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