Six-year-old girl who went to see Lion King is family's sole survivor of Spanish train crash

Maintenance workers from Adif work on the wreckage of a train involved in the accident, at the site of a deadly derailment of two high-speed trains near Adamuz, in Cordoba, Spain, January 20, 2026. REUTERS/Susana Vera

MADRID, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A six-year-old girl was found ‌walking alone along the tracks on Sunday night after her parents, brother and cousin all died in the high-speed crash between ‌two trains in southern Spain. She had been on a family outing to see the Lion King musical in ‌Madrid.

The girl, who has not been officially named, suffered only a minor head wound. The family had been returning to their home in Aljaraque, on the Atlantic coast near Huelva, according to Spanish media.