BARCELONA, Spain — At least 64 people were killed and 80 injured when two high-speed trains collided in central Spain on Wednesday, sending carriages careering off the tracks, in the second major accident on the same line in less than a year.
\n\n“We heard a massive roar, a truly enormous thud that went on for 10 seconds, as if the train were about to derail,” one passenger, Miguel, told Spain’s COPE radio, adding that he was traveling with several colleagues in the rear car of one of the trains.
\n\n“Through the right-hand window, we could see a wrecked train — I imagine it must have been the other one,” he added.
\n\nPictures showed several carriages lying on their sides next to the tracks and others twisted at angles, their wheels sheared off. Debris was strewn around the scene of the accident in the countryside in the province of Toledo.
\n\nAs rescue teams continued to search through the wreckage of the derailed carriages, the Castilla-La Mancha regional government said 64 people had been killed, according to The Associated Press.
\n\nEarlier, the region’s President Emiliano García-Page said that at least 80 people were injured. Together the two trains were carrying more than…
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