At least twenty-one people are killed after two high-speed Spanish trains collide

Sunday's train collision and derailment in southern Spain killed at least 39 people and left 122 injured, with officials highlighting the "strange" nature of the accident on a straight stretch of railway,

The crash occurred Sunday at 7:45 p.m. when the tail end of a train carrying some 300 passengers on the route from Malaga to the capital, Madrid, went off the rails at 7:45 p.m.

A high-speed train ran off its track and crashed into another high-speed train late Sunday in southern Spain, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens of others, according to the local authorities.

Spain’s worst rail accident was in 2013, when a high-speed derailment in Galicia, northwest Spain, resulted in 80 deaths and 140 people injured. | Credit: Francisco J. Olmo / Europa Press / At least 39 people have died following a high-speed collision between two trains near Córdoba in southern Spain.