At least 39 people died in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming one on Sunday night in one of the worst railway accidents in Europe in the past 80 years.

A high-speed train ran off its track and crashed into another high-speed train late Sunday in southern Spain, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens of others, according to the local authoriti...

The trains were carrying about 400 people when the accident happened near Adamuz in the province of Cordoba, about 360 km (223 miles) south of the capital Madrid.