Official says 37 people are injured, as Spain observes three days of mourning for the 42 killed in an earlier train collision.
Published On 21 Jan 2026
One person has been killed and dozens injured after a Spanish commuter train crashed into the rubble of a wall that collapsed onto railway tracks outside Barcelona, emergency workers said.
The crash in the municipality of Gelida, approximately 40km (25 miles) west of Barcelona, in Catalonia in northeastern Spain on Tuesday, comes just two days after a separate train collision killed at least 42 people in the country’s southern Andalusia region.
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Claudi Gallardo, inspector for the fire service in the Catalonia region, said in televised comments from the site of Tuesday’s crash that 37 people had been injured, four of them seriously, and the train driver had died.
“There are four seriously injured, and one person who has passed away,” Gallardo said, adding that all passengers had been removed from the site of the crash.
Catalonia’s civil protection agency posted on social media that “a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, causing an accident involving a passenger train”.
Spain’s railway operator ADIF said the wall likely collapsed due to heavy rains that swept across the region this week.
The latest crash comes as Spain began three days of mourning for the victims of Sunday’s deadly train accident that took place some 800km (497 miles) away, near Adamuz, Cordoba province, in Andalusia.