Overview
- Forensic teams completed identification work this week confirming 69 victims of the Urda crash with 56 identified by fingerprint and 13 by DNA and 66 bodies returned to families.
- Of the deceased, 54 are Spanish and 15 are foreign nationals, and the crash on October 28 left dozens injured with hospitals in Castilla‑La Mancha and Madrid still treating patients.
- Regional health services say most of the original 110 hospitalised people have been discharged while 15 remain in Castilla‑La Mancha hospitals and 18 remain in Madrid hospitals with two in intensive care.
- The independent accident authority AITAT issued a preliminary safety recommendation to AESF and Adif to install systems that detect complete rail breaks before the next train passes, citing a similar undetected fracture in the January Adamuz crash.
- Labour tensions and political fallout continue as the train drivers’ union SEMAF kept planned Renfe strike dates after talks with acting transport minister Carlos Cuerpo and the European prosecutor opened a probe into possible misuse of EU funds for the implicated high‑speed line.