Residents evacuated from the devastated Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have arrived in Belarus and are expected back in Ukraine later on Saturday, authorities have said.

They were taken out on Friday during a local ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump.

Planes carrying Oleshky residents landed in the city of Gomel on Saturday morning, according to Belarusian state media and a senior Ukrainian official.

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At least 68 people are known to have died in Spain’s high-speed rail disaster, with many more injured.

It took place when a train travelling from Madrid to Seville smashed into another train which had come to a halt due to a computer failure. The force pushed several carriages down an embankment.

Spain’s transport minister said the computer failure followed by human error caused the collision, which is one of the deadliest ever recorded in Europe.

The collision happened around 100 miles south of Madrid. The stationary train with 147 passengers on board, run by private rail operator Iryo, was one of several trains that had come to a halt due to the computer failure.

Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente said that operators at a centre in Madrid had then taken control, but had made an “inexplicable” decision to instruct another train to proceed again at full speed, leading it to run into the rear of the stationary train.

Survivors described harrowing scenes of passengers being thrown into the air, trapped in the wreckage and smashing windows to get out. One of the carriages caught fire. Spain’s Civil Guard said it would need DNA samples from relatives to identify some victims.

“The whole of Spain is grieving”, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said during a visit to the crash site. “Lives have been shattered, families have been torn apart, the pain is immense.”

Spain was already reeling from a high-speed rail disaster further south on the same line near Córdoba in January that killed 46 people.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Guy Hedgecoe.

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