🇪🇸 Spain World28 October 2026

Spain suspends Copa del Rey after deadly train collision

By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Nile Post

The Royal Spanish Football Federation suspended the 24 Copa del Rey matches scheduled for Wednesday after a train collision near Madrid killed at least 68 people. Spanish clubs held moments of silence and expressed support for the victims as emergency services continued their work, reports Nile Post.

The 24 Copa del Rey matches scheduled for Wednesday were suspended after two trains collided in Toledo province, killing at least 68 people, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced. The federation said the decision was intended to express solidarity with the victims.

Five top-flight clubs — Levante, Alavés, Valencia, Celta Vigo and Real Betis — were due to play their first-round matches on Wednesday. The RFEF has not yet published a revised schedule for the postponed games, while matches scheduled for Thursday will go ahead.

Real Madrid held a minute’s silence before their Women’s Champions League match against Bayern Munich, and their players wore black armbands. The club offered its condolences to the victims’ families and expressed support for the emergency services. FC Barcelona also offered its condolences and wished those injured a speedy recovery. The train collision in Spain

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz also expressed his support for the victims’ families and those affected by the accident in a message posted on X.

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The collision of two trains near Urda, on the Madrid-Andalusia line, killed at least 68 people, according to Le Monde, Vanguard and Real Equatorial Guinea; Daily Post put the toll at 64. Vanguard reported more than 100 injured, compared with 77 hospitalised, including 15 in a very serious condition, according to Real Equatorial Guinea. The Spanish government declared three days of national mourning; the trains carried 397 Renfe passengers and 147 Iryo passengers, according to a spokesperson for the regional government of Castile-La Mancha. Daily Post reports that Israel offered its condolences and that rescue teams continued their search.

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King Mohammed VI sent his condolences to King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia after the rail collision in Toledo, Spain. He described the accident as terrible and expressed Morocco’s solidarity with the Spanish royal family, the bereaved families and the Spanish people, according to TelQuel and Yabiladi.

🇪🇸 Spain · Source: TelQuel · 28 Oct

No Moroccans among victims of Spanish train collision

No Moroccan nationals were among the victims of the collision between two high-speed trains in the Urda area, in Spain's province of Toledo, according to Yabiladi and TelQuel, which relayed an announcement by Morocco's Consulate General in Madrid. TelQuel specified that this toll was valid at 3pm local time on Wednesday.

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