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Two High-Speed Trains Collide in Spain, Killing at Least 68

A train accident near Toledo, Spain, killed at least 68 people, according to The New York Times.

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A train accident near Toledo, Spain, killed at least 68 people, according to The New York Times, which reported that the crash was one of the deadliest in the country's history. The account was written by Jonathan Wolfe.

BBC News reported that a Spanish high-speed train collided with another train south of the capital, Madrid, and that people had been killed. The BBC said the disaster was the country's worst since 2013.

ABC News described Wednesday's collision as taking place between two high-speed trains in central Spain. It said the crash was the second fatal one in nine months on a network long held up as a "national success story," and its headline counts four deadly train crashes in Spain this year.

The reports differ on the location of the collision. The New York Times placed the accident near Toledo, the BBC placed it south of Madrid, and ABC News placed it in central Spain. The reports also differ in detail on casualties: The New York Times gave a death toll of at least 68, while the summaries of the BBC and ABC News reports do not state a number of deaths.

The summaries of these reports do not say what caused the collision.

Sources: ABC News: Spain’s 4 deadly train crashes this year, at a glance; The New York Times: What We Know About the Deadly Train Crash in Spain; BBC News: Watch: At the scene of Spain's deadly train crash.

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