Emergency services pore over scene of Spain train crash as accident leaves dozens dead

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Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people are confirmed dead in a high-speed train collision the previous night in the south of the country.

Efforts to recover the bodies are continuing and the death toll is likely to rise.

Some passengers were catapulted through windows and their bodies were found hundreds of meters from the crash site, Andalusia regional president Juanma Moreno said.

The crash occurred Sunday at 7:45 p.m. when the tail end of a train carrying some 300 passengers on the route from Malaga to the capital, Madrid, went off the rails at 7:45 p.m.

It slammed into an incoming train traveling from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to rail operator Adif.

The head of the second train, which was carrying nearly 200 passengers, took the brunt of the impact, Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente said.

That collision knocked its first two carriages off the track and sent them plummeting down a 4-meter (13-foot) slope. Puente said that it appeared the largest number of the deaths occurred in those carriages.

Authorities said all the survivors had been rescued in the early morning while work remained to recover and identify the dead.

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