Lamine Yamal shared a short message on Instagram for the victims of the Urda train disaster on Wednesday, accompanying his words with a red heart.

“My solidarity and support to all the families of the victims and those affected by the Urda disaster. All support and strength to everyone,” the Barcelona forward wrote.

The post went up as rescue crews were still working through the wreckage of two high-speed trains that collided on the Madrid to Seville line near the Toledo village of Urda. The regional government of Castilla-La Mancha confirmed at least 68 people were killed, with dozens more taken to hospital, including some in critical condition.

An AVE service operated by state carrier Renfe, carrying 397 passengers, struck a stationary Iryo train with 147 passengers from behind. Two carriages of the Iryo train tumbled down an embankment at the point of impact.

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Barcelona join official mourning as Copa del Rey halts

Every Copa del Rey fixture scheduled for Wednesday was called off out of respect for the victims. Barcelona expressed their “deepest condolences” and said the club would join the three days of official mourning declared by the Spanish government, as reported by Barca Universal.

The club postponed scheduled institutional events in Tarragona, though its board of directors still met at the club’s own offices.

Yamal’s tribute was among the most widely shared from the football world, with players and clubs across Spain posting their own condolences during the day.

Sánchez pledges tough line if safety failed

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the whole country was in mourning and warned that any safety failures uncovered by the investigation would be met with a firm response, according to Euronews. He called it unacceptable that Spain had suffered two major rail disasters in a single year, after a January collision in Andalusia killed 46.

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Transport minister Óscar Puente said the LZB signalling system had failed along a 63km stretch at around 8:30am local time, affecting six trains in the area. A control-centre decision to let the Renfe service resume its journey was described by Puente as “inexplicable”.

The three days of national mourning run from Thursday 29 October to Saturday 31 October, with the Rail Accident Investigation Commission and the courts both examining the cause.

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