Spain PM declares three days of mourning after two high-speed trains collide, 39 killed

ADAMUZ, Jan 19: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday declared three days of mourning over a high-speed train collision that claimed at least 39 lives, and vowed a full investigation into its causes.

"We will uncover the answer, and once the cause of this tragedy is determined, we will present it with absolute transparency," he told reporters in the southern town of Adamuz near where the disaster happened.

The accident happened near Adamuz in the province of Cordoba, about 360 km (223 miles) south of the capital Madrid. It left 122 people injured, with 48 still in hospital and 12 in intensive care, according to emergency services.

"The train tipped to one side... then everything went dark, and all I heard was screams," said Ana, a young woman who was travelling back to Madrid and was being treated at a Red Cross centre in Adamuz. Limping and wrapped in a blanket, her face covered with plasters, she described how she was dragged out of the train covered in blood through a window by other passengers who had escaped. Firefighters rescued her sister from the wreckage and an ambulance took them both to hospital.

"There were people who were fine and others who were very, very badly injured. You had them right in front of you and you knew they were going to die, and you couldn't do anything," she said.    �"AGENCIES