At least 80 people have been injured in the violent collision between two trains recorded this Wednesday morning on the Madrid-Seville high-speed line, at the height of the Toledo municipality of Urda, an accident in which at least 64 fatalities have also been counted.
The government spokesperson for Castilla-La Mancha, Esther Padilla, has confirmed that all the injured have already been evacuated from the trains and that at this moment the rescue teams are focusing on the extraction of the lifeless bodies.
Padilla has detailed that, of the 80 injured, 50 are in serious condition and 30 are considered minor. Likewise, she has indicated that a triage unit is referring each affected person to the most appropriate hospital center according to their condition, and the clinics and health centers of Mora and Sonseca have been reinforced. In addition, emergency and urgent care teams have been moved to the Urda pavilion, located a few kilometers from the site of the accident.
According to regional government sources, there are at least 29 injured at the Hospital General Universitario de Toledo —where two discharges have already taken place—, 20 at Mancha Centro de Alcázar de San Juan, four at the Hospital General de Ciudad Real and one more injured person at the Hospital General de Albacete. In addition, three injured people have been transferred to hospitals in Madrid.
All the health departments of the autonomous communities have made themselves available to the Government of Castilla-La Mancha. However, people who are able to do so have been asked to go to the hospitals to donate blood.
The government spokesperson has also emphasized that psychological care points have been set up for relatives in Atocha, in Sevilla-Santa Justa, in Córdoba and in the school of Urda. She specified that it was the College of Psychologists and professionals from the Castilla-La Mancha Health Service who made a specialized team of psychologists available.