Spain train crash: 66 of 69 dead identified, including four Americans
Spanish authorities have identified 66 of the 69 people killed in last Wednesday's train crash near Urda, AP and the Guardian report. They include 54 Spaniards and 12 foreigners, four of them from the United States. Missing-person reports for two Australians and one Japanese citizen remain open.
Spanish authorities have identified 66 of the 69 people killed in Wednesday's high-speed train crash near Urda, in Toledo province, AP and the Guardian report. The death toll stays at 69, the Spanish daily ABC says.
Those identified include 54 Spaniards and 12 foreign nationals, RTVE and ABC report. Four of the foreigners were from the United States. There was one each from Argentina, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal and Tunisia, AP, the Guardian, RTVE and ABC report.
Three missing-person reports remain open, for two Australians and one Japanese citizen, AP, the Guardian and ABC report. The three people not yet identified are also believed to be foreign, ABC says. Their families have said they want to travel to Spain to take part in the identification, and officials are waiting for them to arrive, the Guardian reports.
Of the 66 identifications, 53 were made through fingerprints by the Guardia Civil, and 13 through DNA tests, ABC reports. Officials have informed the families of 60 of the 66 in person, ABC says. So far, 47 bodies have been released to relatives, RTVE and ABC report.
Twenty-nine injured people remain in hospitals in Castilla-La Mancha, nine of them in intensive care, RTVE reports. Ten more were moved to hospitals in Madrid and Andalusia, and 81 have been discharged, RTVE says.
A train run by the state operator Renfe hit the back of a stopped train run by the company Iryo outside Urda, about 80 miles south of Madrid, the Guardian reports. A failed safety system had stopped trains on that stretch of track. A control center then let the Renfe train go on while the Iryo train was still stopped, the Guardian says.
The crash came nine months after another high-speed collision on the same Madrid-Seville line killed 46 people, AP reports. It also came one month before a general election on November 29, AP and the Guardian say.
What we know: 66 of the 69 dead have been identified, including four Americans.
What we don't: When the last three victims will be identified, and what caused the crash.
Where outlets agree AP, the Guardian, RTVE and ABC agree that 66 of the 69 dead have been identified, including four Americans.
Where they differ The cited reports agree on the key facts so far.