At least 68 dead as Spain's high-speed trains collide near Toledo

A control centre in Madrid let an AVE train resume full speed minutes after a safety system failed, and it hit a stationary train at up to 200 kilometres an hour in Castilla-La Mancha. At least 68 people died and 58 were hospitalised, and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared three days of national mourning. Transport Minister Óscar Puente called the order “inexplicable” and said the drivers were not to blame, in Spain's second deadly high-speed rail crash this year after 46 died in January.

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