Spanish authorities have reportedly identified the 69 victims from the high-speed train crash last week.
A legal body established to handle identification work, consisting of police and forensic experts, announced in a statement late Monday that the last three victims identified two Australians and a Japanese national.
Victims include 54 Spaniards and 15 foreigners, four Americans, two Australians, two Japanese, and one citizen from Argentina, Canada, France, Mexico, Portugal, Tunisia and the Czech Republic.
The accident was the second high-speed train crash in Spain this year and raised new questions about the country’s railway safety, following an accident in the southern region of Andalusia in January that killed 46 people.
The recent disaster occurred when a service of state operator Renfe crashed into the back of a fixed train belonging to the Spanish company Iryo outside the central village of Urda, about 130 miles [130 km] south of Madrid’s capital.
The failure of an automatic security system stopped all trains in one segment, but a control centre authorized Renfe’s service to resume its journey while the next train was on the move.
Source Layer: Insander