All 69 Urda Victims Identified, Including 15 Foreign Nationals
The Integrated Data Centre coordinating the data of the Urda high-speed train collision reported on November 2 that the Institutes of Legal Medicine of Toledo and Ciudad Real have now identified all 69 victims, and that every family has been notified.
Of the 69 dead, 54 were Spanish nationals and 15 were foreign nationals. The foreign victims include four Americans, two Australians and two Japanese, and one citizen each from Argentina, Canada, Czechia, France, Mexico, Portugal and Tunisia. The dead are 40 men and 29 women, all of them adults.
Identifications were completed mainly by two methods: 56 victims were identified by fingerprint comparison by the Civil Guard's criminalistics service, and 13 by DNA analysis by the National Institute of Toxicology. Most bodies have been released to families, and the relevant consulates have been informed.
The crash occurred on October 28 near Urda, in Toledo province, when a Renfe AVE train rear-ended a stationary Iryo train. On Monday, cranes finished removing all the carriages of both trains from the tracks. The investigation into the causes and the judicial proceedings continue under seal.
Source: Integrated Data Centre (CID), TSJCLM
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：托莱多民防协调中心会议（资料图）。图片来源：Wikimedia Commons（CC BY-SA 4.0），作者：Emiliano García-Page Sánchez。 / Photo: Civil-protection coordination meeting in Toledo (file photo). Source: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), by Emiliano García-Page Sánchez.
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