Good Morning Britain interrupted for devastating breaking news

Kate Garraway had to begin the ITV programme with a piece of “horrifying” breaking news.

GMB was halted for a ‘horrifying’ breaking news story (Image: ITV)

ITV breakfast show Good Morning Britain was interrupted for a devastating piece of breaking news this morning (January 19) as anchor Kate Garraway led tributes to those killed in a “horrifying” Spanish train derailment. Kate told viewers: “We begin this morning with the horrifying train accident in Spain, in which 39 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, including four children.

“Those fatality numbers, tragically, have gone up even in the last hour. The high-speed train was travelling north from the city of Malaga on the south coast to the capital Madrid when it derailed, sending carriages crashing onto their sides and sliding across another track and causing a second train, heading south to the town of Huelva, to derail also,” she explained.

Kate went on: “The King of Spain and the country’s prime minister have expressed profound sorrow, saying: ‘No words can alleviate such great suffering.’”

Correspondent Graham Stothard had the latest from the scene, explaining: “As rescuers helped survivors to safety, others still stuck onboard clambered through shattered windows, desperate to escape the wreckage of a high-speed train crash in southern Spain.

Footage from the aftermath of the crash was aired (Image: ITV)

“This woman was a passenger. ‘Everyone was helping each other’, she said, ‘and I pray to God that everything turns out okay and that there are few injuries and fatalities’.

“Tragically, that wasn’t the case. At least 39 people were killed and dozens more seriously injured, including four children.”

He explained that the train derailed after jumping a track, with 500 passengers onboard the combined two trains involved.