Those who died as a result of train accident that occurred on Wednesday in Urda (Spain)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).
Those who died as a result of train accident that occurred on Wednesday in Urda (Spain)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 organization 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 the data on victims had been offered by the 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 (south) rammed from behind a stopped Iryo train, which was carrying 147 passengers including a baby, causing several cars to fall down an embankment.
King Felipe VI of Spain, together with Queen Letizia, speaks to the press after visiting the victims of the train accident that occurred in Toledo. (Photo by Javier SORIANO / AFP).
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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), close to 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.”
