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At Least 64 Killed in High-Speed Train Crash Near Toledo

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Live Updates: At Least 64 Killed in Train Crash in Spain, Officials Say. A high-speed passenger train rear-ended another in Spain on Wednesday morning near the central city of Toledo, killing at least 68 people and injuring dozens more, officials said, in one of the deadliest train crashes in Spanish history. The accident happened after traffic control operators told a high-speed train to continue its journey when another train was stopped farther along the tracks, Spain's transportation minister, Óscar Puente, said. He called the operators' instruction "inexplicable." The deadly crash was the second this year involving the same two rail operators; the first, in

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