69 people are identified as dead in a train collision in Spain, including 15 foreigners
A high-speed train collision in Urda, Spain, on October 28 killed 69 people. The crash involved a Renfe train and a stopped Iryo train, near Toledo.
- There were 69 fatalities in the train accident in Spain.
- Spanish authorities identified 66 of the 69 victims of the train accident.
- The Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Toledo and Ciudad Real identified 69 deceased in the railway accident.
- The train accident in Urda is the second railway accident in Spain this year.
- Among the identified victims were 54 Spanish citizens and 12 foreigners.
- 56 of the 69 deceased identifications were made by fingerprint.
- The train collision involved a train from Madrid to Seville hitting a stopped train.
- The collision occurred near Toledo on Wednesday.
- Four of the foreign victims were American.
- The judicial body had also announced the deaths of 54 Spanish people.
- The collision occurred after the automatic stop of six trains due to a signaling system failure.
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