Spain seeks answers after train collision kills 69
World · First reported 29 Oct, 13:20 · Updated 01:12
A collision between a Renfe train and a stationary Iryo train south of Madrid killed 69 people and injured scores, prompting mourning, searches for missing passengers and scrutiny of rail safety. Officials have offered differing accounts of how trains resumed after an automatic control-system failure.
- The crash happened Wednesday south of Madrid; authorities raised the death toll to 69 on Thursday, and scores were injured.
- Relatives provided DNA samples and sought news as search teams worked at the site; Toledo received 52 bodies, exceeding its morgue’s capacity of 30.
- The transport minister cited a control-system failure and criticized the decision to resume traffic; the train-driver union said attention was wrongly focused on blame.
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- Deaths
- 69, according to regional authorities on Thursday.
- Collision
- A Renfe service struck the back of a stationary Iryo train south of Madrid on Wednesday morning.
- Recovery
- Toledo received 52 bodies; its morgue capacity was 30.
- Control system
- The transport minister said an automatic control system went down on 69 kilometres of track.
- Rail disruption
- The Madrid commuter network cancelled 81 per cent of planned services.
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