Spain Train Collision Death Toll Reaches 69 as Search and Identification Continue
Spanish rescue teams continued searching wrecked carriages on October 29 after a high-speed train collision in central Spain killed 69 people and injured dozens. The regional leader of Castilla-La Mancha said one more body was found overnight, raising the toll from the 68 reported the previous day. Fifty people remained in hospital, according to the regional official, while authorities worked with relatives to identify those killed. The crash happened on Wednesday near Urda, south of Madrid, when one train struck another that had stopped on the line. The impact sent at least three carriages down a gravel slope. Cranes lifted damaged cars as police, soldiers and search teams with sniffer dogs examined the wreckage. The scale of the impact and the difficult recovery meant the search and identification work continued into a second day. Spain’s government declared three days of mourning beginning Thursday. A minute of silence was observed at public sites, including outside Parliament and a...