Spain Working 'Tirelessly' to Identify Train Crash Dead: PM
Spain is using DNA samples and missing-person reports to identify the dead, as officials say five bodies remain unnamed after the collision.
- On Friday, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stated Spain is working "tirelessly" to identify 69 victims of Wednesday's high-speed train collision near Urda, 80 miles south of Madrid.
- The disaster occurred when a state-run Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo service in Castilla-La Mancha, marking Spain's second major rail accident this year and one of Europe's deadliest this century.
- Legal authorities confirmed 70 reports for missing people were presented, while Castilla-La Mancha leader Emiliano Garcia-Page warned "we do not rule out there being more dead" amid identification complications.
- Relatives are gathering in Toledo, where authorities established an improvised morgue, as Sanchez doubled down on a "commitment" to continuously inform families providing DNA samples for identification.
- The right-wing opposition is demanding the resignation of Socialist Transport Minister Puente, citing his handling of the rail network following this week's tragedy.
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"We are working tirelessly, with all the services of the State (...) to try to provide as much information as possible, in a reliable way, to the families of the victims", declared the socialist leader after a meeting with the relief services near Urda, the commune of the center of the country where the disaster occurred. Mr. Sánchez reaffirmed "the commitment" to "communicate (to the families) the fate of their relatives as the whole process of…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on Thursday that "at this stage we are still seeking to establish contact with several of our nationals and are in contact with their families".
Thirteen of the 74 victims of Wednesday's tragic train crash in Spain have been identified so far. Three women and two men have been identified using fingerprints, the website rtve reported. But about seventy people who were on the trains in question are still missing, the website hola reports.
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