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The death toll is “not yet final”, said Spanish transport minister Óscar Puente, who has launched an investigation into the cause of the “extremely strange” incident. This is Spain’s worst train crash since 2013, when a high-speed derailment in Galicia, northwest Spain, left 80 people dead and 140 others injured.

MADRID, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Sunday's train collision and derailment in southern Spain killed at least 39 people and left 122 injured, with officials highlighting the "strange" nature of the accident on a straight stretch of railway, while one theory pointed to a broken rail joint.

The derailment occurred on the Madrid–Andalusia route, according to Carina Mejías, a member of Spain’s Congress of Deputies, who confirmed the incident in a public statement