00:00At least 30 are dead after a high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that
00:04had stopped in central Spain, authorities said Wednesday.
00:07The regional president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano Garcia-Page, warned that the death
00:11toll could rise.
00:12He added that at least 80 people were injured.
00:15Esther Padilla, spokeswoman for the Castilla-La Mancha region, told state broadcaster TVE that
00:19the accident was between two high-speed trains carrying hundreds of passengers and heading
00:23in the same direction from the capital Madrid to Seville in southwestern Spain.
00:27One ran into the tail of the other that had stopped, knocking two of its cars off the
00:32track.
00:32She said the cause of the crash was not known.
00:34It was the second major train accident in Spain this year.
00:37Trains from those two companies were also involved in a deadly crash in January.
00:41A military emergency brigade was deployed to help emergency services, firefighters and police.
00:46Spanish health minister Monica Garcia told TVE that emergency workers were focusing on rescuing
00:50survivors and bodies from the two most damaged train cars.
00:53She said that the injured are being sent to different hospitals in the area.
00:56out.
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