At least 68 people were killed on Wednesday, October 28, when a high-speed train run by Spain's state operator Renfe slammed into the back of a train of the private company Iryo that had stopped on the Madrid–Seville line, the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha said, according to PBS NewsHour.

The crash happened at about 8:53 a.m. near Urda and Los Yébenes in Toledo province. The Renfe train carried 397 passengers and the Iryo train 147. Fifty-eight people needed hospital treatment, and rescuers kept searching the wreckage for survivors.

Transport Minister Óscar Puente said a signaling system failed at 8:30 a.m. because of a computer malfunction, halting trains along a 63-kilometer stretch. Central command then told the Renfe train to resume without speed restrictions even though a stop signal was still active, he said, adding that it may have been traveling close to 200 km/h. “I am not attributing responsibility to anyone,” he said.

King Felipe VI visited the site, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez canceled his schedule and rail service between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia was suspended. It is Spain's second deadly high-speed crash this year, after a January collision in the south that killed 46 people; before 2026 the country's dedicated high-speed lines had seen no fatal crash since opening in 1992.