Current time inToledo, Spain12:46 p.m. Oct.

28LatestHere’s the latest.A high-speed passenger train rear-ended another and caused a derailment on Wednesday morning near Toledo, Spain, killing at least 30 people, according to a spokesperson for the regional government.The fatal accident, which sent multiple carriages down an embankment, comes after another deadly crash involving the same carriers on a southern line in January that killed 46 people, stunned Spain and created deep doubts about the security of its once-vaunted rail system.At least 30 people were killed in the Wednesday crash, according to a spokesperson for Castilla-La Mancha, the region where it took place. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the death toll.In Spanish news reports, passengers who were in the crash described an awful impact that tossed people from a dining car, broke limbs and piled passengers atop one another.

People crawled out of windows and lay in a nearby field, where local workers, who had heard the crash, rushed to help them with first aid kits and saw the first bodies.The Adif, Spain’s rail authority, said the trains involved were a “Renfe train and another from the Iryo company, both covering the Madrid-Sevilla route.” Renfe, the national rail provider, reported that high-speed service from Madrid, the nation’s capital, to the southern region of Andalusia was suspended. Initial reports suggested that the Iryo train was stopped on the tracks, and that the Renfe train barreled into it.

Local news outlets reported that there were 397 passengers aboard the Renfe train and about 150 aboard the Iryo train.Isaac Barrientos, a spokesman for the government’s transportation ministry, said initial reports indicated that two carriages of the Iryo train had derailed.With early national elections set for the end of November, the crash had the potential to become an issue in an already bitter campaign about the competence of the left-wing government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.“Shocked by the serious train accident in Toledo,” Mr. Sánchez, whose office canceled all scheduled meetings, wrote on social media. “Emergency services are working on the ground to assist those affected and ensure their safety, in coordination with all the involved administrations.

My affection, solidarity and support to all the victims and their families.”The conservative opposition leader, Alberto NĂșñez FeijĂło, quickly voiced his own concern as well.“I am very concerned about the information we are receiving regarding another train accident,” he wrote on social media. “The priority now is to assist the victims and support their families. My full support goes to the emergency teams working on the ground.”His Popular Party canceled all its campaign events around the country.JosĂ© Bautista contributed reporting from Madrid.The crash comes months after a fatal accident involving the same train operators.ImageTwo high-speed trains collided near Adamuz, Spain, in January, killing at least 40 people.Credit...Jorge Guerrero/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe fatal train crash near Toledo on Wednesday comes months after a deadly collision in southern Spain that involved the same carriers.

In that accident, in January, 46 people were killed when two high-speed trains collided near Adamuz, in the country’s worst rail disaster since 2013.The crash in January occurred when a train belonging to the private company Iryo derailed as it traveled toward Madrid. The train had been traveling north from Málaga when two of its rear cars fell into the opposite track.

Seconds later, a southbound train operated by Spain’s national rail company, Renfe, slammed into the carriages.The two trains were carrying hundreds of people when the collision occurred. An official report on what caused that accident is not yet available, but preliminary investigations pointed to a broken rail as the likely cause.The accident shocked Spain and led to deep uncertainty about the safety of the country’s rail system, which contains the world’s second-longest high-speed rail network.The deadly crash on Wednesday was the third in Spain this year.

Days after the accident in January, a commuter train near Barcelona struck a collapsed retaining wall and derailed, killing one person.Videos shot by passengers after the crash show parts of the derailed carriages pulverized, with charred wheels, and bags and seats strewn across an embankment. Emergency workers tend to the injured or hover over people covered in Mylar blankets.

The arid field outside the small towns of Los YĂ©benes and Urda has become a parking lot of emergency vehicles and tents.Video filmed inside one of the trains and verified by The New York Times shows smoke rising from a charred, mangled carriage on the slope of the rail line. The footage was first shared by the Spanish radio station Capital Radio, which said an employee had been on one of the trains at the time of the crash.VideoCreditCredit...Capital Radio, via Agence France-PresseThe first eyewitness reports from the crash are beginning to trickle in on Spanish media.

Passengers are describing an awful impact that tossed people from the dining car, broke limbs and piled passengers atop one another. Passengers crawled out of windows and lay in in a nearby field, where local workers, who heard the crash, rushed to help them with first aid kits and saw the first bodies.The crash comes months after a deadly collision in January in southern Spain that involved the same carriers.

That accident, in which two high-speed trains collided, killing 46 people, was the country’s worst railway disaster since 2013.An official report on what caused the January crash is not yet available, but preliminary investigations pointed to a broken rail as the likely cause.Spain’s interior ministry said in a statement that it was deploying a military emergency unit and Civil Guard officers to the scene of the crash in the province of Toledo. Investigators from Spain’s Major Disaster Unit are also en route.