At least 64 killed as two high-speed trains collide in central Spain

At least 64 people have been killed after two high-speed trains collided in central Spain. The trains crashed just outside Toledo on the line connecting Madrid to Seville in the southern Andalusia region. Footage shows wreckage scattered across an embankment. Rail services between Madrid and Andalusia have been suspended. A crash on the same line in January killed 46 people. Graham Keeley is a journalist and writer covering Spain. He says safety checks on high-speed railway lines may not have been completed by the time of the crash. This comes at an awful time for the present government because we have an election here in Spain in just over a month. After the crash in January, the government promised to conduct checks on all the lines all over the country. And what happened was trains were slowed down on major high speed routes however it appears that these checks had not been completed by the time of this crash i should say that so far indications suggest that today's crash was due to human error although that's not the findings of any official inquiry this happened in a rural area near to two small towns just south of Toledo which is quite a small city which is popular with tourists the people on these trains were commuters going down for going from Madrid to Seville and a number of tourists americans people from the Philippines and other countries going to see Seville which is a very popular city with tourists