INVESTIGATORS are focusing on the heart-stoppingly short interval between which a train heading north from Malaga to Madrid derailed – and smashed into another train heading south to Huelva. These twenty seconds are the most important figure in the analysis of the deadly accident near Adamuz (Cordoba), which resulted in at least 39 deaths and scores of injuries. Renfe, Spain’s …

Images posted by passengers of the train that derailed on Sunday night in Adamuz, Cordoba Province, show the magnitude of the incident. They include passengers in shock and trying to find their belongings in the affected carriages. Ambulances are transporting injured passengers. Montse Ruiz was one of the passengers in carriage 4 of the Alvia train traveling from Madrid to …

SPAIN’S Transport Minister Oscar Puente has urged the public not to speculate about the cause of Sunday’s high-speed train crash near Adamuz in Cordoba province while investigators are working to establish what went wrong. Puente called the derailment ‘tremendously strange’, stressing that the incident happened on a straight section of line and on infrastructure that had been completely renewed in …