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High-speed trains collide after one derails in Spain, killing at least 10

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Video from the scene shared on social media showed derailed train carriages, emergency workers and people jumping out of the windows of a train carriage tilted on one side.

A high-speed train derailed in southern Spain, jumping onto the track in the opposite direction and hitting an oncoming train, the Spanish rail operator Adif said.

Emergency services said the collision killed 10 people and severely injured 25.

The evening train between Malaga and Madrid derailed and hit a train coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to Adif.

Emergency services in Andalucia, the province where the accident happened, said it had recorded five deaths and 25 people with severe injuries.

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