Those who died as a result of the train accident that occurred on Wednesday in UrdaSpain, in which a Renfe train collided with the rear of an Iryo that was stopped, amounts to 74 according to data from the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF).
The agency added that this death toll is provisional and highlighted that there is a “very high number of injuries still pending confirmation.”
This is the first official communication from the CIAF of the number of deaths related to this accident, since until now Data on victims had been provided by emergency services at the scene of the accident.
As explained by the commission, an investigative team from the agency has been at the scene of the accident since Wednesday morning, when the collision occurred.
In this incident, the second of its kind that occurred this year in Spain, at least one Argentine died while one compatriot remains missing.
The accident occurred at 08:54 local time (09:54 GMT) on Wednesday, when a Renfe AVE with 397 people on board that was traveling from Madrid towards Seville hit from behind a stopped Iryo train, which was carrying 147 passengers, including a baby. causing several cars to fall down an embankment.
Meanwhile, the kings of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia, went today to visit the injured admitted to the University Hospital of Toledo (a city south of Madrid), near the site of the accident, where more than twenty are hospitalized, fifteen of them in critical condition.
The head of state asked society to “continue moving forward even with that pain, without ever forgetting the wound left by so many people who have lost their lives, who are missing us, who are missing their families” and urged us to continue “united and with dignity.”
