Almost 60 people were killed and 131 injured as six carriages of a train derailed in the north-western Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela.
The Guardian reports that the train was travelling at more than twice the speed limit on a sharp curve which caused the fatal accident.
According to the report, 20 passengers have got seriously injured and five are in coma.
A spokeswoman for the office of the central government in Galicia has warned that the death toll might rise further in the worst rail disaster of Spain in 40 years.
There were some 247 people on board the train which was travelling from Madrid to the Galician port of Ferrol, the report added.
