Spain PM Sanchez cancels Davos trip to deal with high-speed train crash incident

This is already shaping up to be Spain’s worst rail crash in more than a decade. For some context, the incident involved carriages on a Madrid-bound train that derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, colliding with an oncoming train in Adamuz on Sunday evening.

The death toll is “not yet final”, according to Spain’s transport minister. That as more than a hundred passengers are still being treated in hospital. There were roughly four hundred passengers and staff onboard both trains.

Spain’s prime minister Sanchez has now said that he will cancel his trip to Davos to attend to the situation above. He was due to deliver a special address at the World Economic Forum on 21 January at 0900 GMT.