PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez has cancelled his schedule to go to the train crash site in Cordoba where at least 39 people died.
He will be briefed first-hand about the situation following Sunday’s derailment of two high-speed trains at Adamuz.
His scrapped plans had included a meeting with the Partido Popular leader, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo.
An Iryo train, which had left Malaga at 6.40pm on Sunday bound for Puerta de Atocha in Madrid with 317 people on board.
Its last three carriages derailed at 7.39pm and went over into the opposite track-derailing a Renfe train heading towards Huelva.
The Iryo carriages hit the first two carriages of the Renfe Alvia, which were derailed and went down a four metre embankment.
As of 9am on Monday, at least 39 people have died following the incident and 152 people where injured of which 48 remain hospitalised, including five children.
The Minister of Transport, Oscar Puente, is already at the disaster site.
He warned that the death toll may rise further.
Puente also praised rescue services who worked during the night ‘in very difficult circumstances’.
Speaking from Adamuz, the Andalucia president, Juanma Moreno, said that Monday was going to be a long day and the week would be ‘very complicated’.
He said facts needed to be analysed to ensure that a tragedy like the one at Adamuz ‘does not happen again’.
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