The transport company informed through a statement, published by the newspaper El País, that throughout the day the train service will tend to normalize. Specifically, the Madrid-Sevilla trains started with a delay of between two and three hours, according to the note.
The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, described the cable theft that affected train circulation as an act of sabotage and referred to it as a fairly coordinated action. The Spanish railway company, Renfe, communicated that train service between Andalusia and Madrid was being restored following the mentioned cable theft, according to reports from media in the Spanish capital.
In the minister's words, "Whoever did it knew what they were doing." Puente also stated that the service was expected to operate at 100% between 14:00 and 16:00. A judge opened an investigation to determine the authorship of the cable theft at several points in the province of Toledo, and the Civil Guard was in charge of carrying out the inquiries, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior.
