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Spain demands answers after deadliest train disaster in a decade

More than one hundred people were also injured when the two high-speed trains collided south of Madrid, and Spain's government says it wants to know what went wrong.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis just in: at least sixty-eight people are dead and more than one hundred injured after two high-speed trains collided south of Madrid, Al Jazeera reports.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt is Spain's deadliest train disaster in more than a decade.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFor travelers, this is analysis, not confirmed fact: the questions will be about signals, speed and safety checks, and the government says it wants answers.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWe don't yet know what went wrong, and officials should say so plainly when they do. Our thoughts are with the families.

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The story so far

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