Emergency teams have been working all night, under the bright lighting of reflectors, opening damaged cars and searching for victims. Many of the people who lost their lives have not yet been identified, reports the BBC.
Authorities have begun investigating the causes of the accident, which occurred on Wednesday morning when a train traveling from Madrid to Seville crashed into a train stopped on the track.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that all of Spain is in mourning, adding that lives are destroyed, families are separated and the pain is great.
According to Spain’s Interior Ministry, hundreds of emergency teams are engaged in the scene of the accident. The search-saving operations are also being used in the drones and helicopters to track down the victims and remove the ruins.
Spanish Minister of Transport, slaincar Puente, said that the train of the private company Iryo had 147 passengers and had stopped on track because of a computer system defect.
According to him, in such cases, the search is taken from a 24-hour centre in Madrid, but it had made an inexplicable decision to keep trains moving without speed limits.
Audio records between rail traffic controllers in Madrid and the machines seem to indicate that one of the high-speed trains was allowed to continue moving, though another train had stopped before him.
The Iryo company claimed that its train was hit from behind by another train, which was run by the state railway company Renfe, and had 397 passengers aboard. As a result of the impact power, some cars came off the tracks and fell on a scath.
Source Layer: RTKLive