False theories about the train accident in Spain, which resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries, have spread online, while investigators continue to work to discover what caused the deadly train collisions, according to Euronews.
On January 18, in Adamuz, southern Spain, three carriages from a train operated by the private company Iryo derailed and moved onto a separate line before colliding with another train operated by the Spanish state railway operator Renfe, which crashed into an embankment.
At least 45 people died in one of the most severe train accidents in the country’s history. A few days later, a locomotive mechanic was killed in a separate derailment near Barcelona, and another train crashed into a crane in the Murcia region, injuring several people.
The consecutive accidents have generated a wave of ultimately misleading theories about the exact cause of the accident in Adamuz.
One of the main unfounded theories of the accident is that it was an act of sabotage – a claim that emerged in the hours after the Adamuz incident and spread on social networks in several languages.
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