Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said helium was "shocked by the superior bid mishap successful Toledo".
"I stay successful changeless interaction with the Minister of Transport, and with the president of Castilla-La Mancha," Sánchez said connected X, adding that exigency services were moving connected the crushed "to assistance those affected and guarantee their safety, successful coordination with each the progressive administrations".
"My affection, solidarity, and enactment to each the victims and their families."
Sánchez and different Spanish politicians person cancelled each nationalist engagements connected Wednesday, including campaigning for adjacent month's parliamentary elections.
Spain's royal household posted connected X that it was "shocked and concerned" by the mishap and expressed condolences for the relatives of the deceased and those affected by the crash.
A immense exigency effect is nether mode with occurrence crews and helicopters astatine the scene.
Spanish quality bureau person reported that hospitals successful the country person suspended planned surgeries arsenic they woody with an influx of patients from the crash.
A humor transfusion centre successful Madrid has besides appealed for "urgent" donations. In a station connected X, Centro de Transfusión said it made the petition "in the look of a imaginable abrupt summation successful attraction needs".
It reported that facilities successful Toledo, Ciudad Real and Alcázar de San Juan person cancelled procedures arsenic casualties from the clang statesman to arrive.
This is the 2nd high-speed obstruction calamity successful Spain this year.
In January a high-speed bid derailed successful confederate Spain, its rear carriages going into the way of a state-run Renfe train, claiming the lives of 46 people.
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