The death toll from a train crash in Spain has risen to 68, Emiliano García-Page, head of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, announced on October 28.
“According to the latest information we have, 68 people have died,” he stated, as broadcast live by the local television channel RTVE.
The collision between two trains in central Spain occurred on the afternoon of October 28. At the Urda station in the province of Toledo, a high-speed train struck another train that had stopped on the tracks, causing two carriages to fall from an embankment. At least four carriages overturned as a result of the incident.
Authorities in the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia subsequently declared a three-day period of mourning for the victims, which will last through October 31. The newspaper El País reports that the primary cause of the accident appears to be human error, compounded by a failure in the signaling system. It is alleged that an employee of the infrastructure manager Adif authorized the departure of a Renfe train, even though the track was already occupied by a train operated by Iryo.
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