Experts investigating the cause of a train crash in Spain that killed 39 people have found a broken joint on the rails, a source has revealed.

THE mystery behind Spain’s horrific train collision may be solved, as human error is ruled out as the cause of the country’s worst rail disaster in more than a decade. The tail end of

The Spain Train Crash occurred near the town of Adamuz, close to Córdoba, approximately 360 kilometres south of Madrid. The collision took place at around 6:40 pm local time on Sunday, plunging the region into chaos and prompting an immediate large-scale emergency response.

At least 39 people were killed and dozens more injured after two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain on Sunday evening. The crash happened at 7.45pm local time near Adamuz, a town of about 5,000 people in the province of Córdoba, according to Spain’s interior ministry.

A high-speed train crash in southern Spain has killed 40, prompting a full investigation into the "extremely strange" accident. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The death toll is “not yet final”, said Spanish transport minister Óscar Puente, who has launched an investigation into the cause of the “extremely strange” incident. This is Spain’s worst train crash since 2013, when a high-speed derailment in Galicia, northwest Spain, left 80 people dead and 140 others injured.