The death toll of a fatal train crash in Spain which killed 68 people is expected to rise as questions remain over the technical room ‘error’ which caused the smash.
Three carriages were derailed when a train travelling from Madrid to Seville collided with a stationary one on the same route near the city of Toledo shortly before 9am yesterday.
It left 68 people dead and more than 100 injured in scenes described as ‘apocalyptic’ by surviving passengers, who said the damage was ‘as if a bomb had been planted’.
Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente told reporters an ‘inexplicable’ order from a central command
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