{"id":955182,"date":"2026-11-02T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955182\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:10:11","slug":"spain-train-crash-us-japan-and-canada-citizens-among-dead-authorities-say-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955182\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain train crash: US, Japan and Canada citizens among dead, authorities say | Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Four US citizens and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic were among the 69 killed in last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/28\/spain-train-crash-high-speed-toledo\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high-speed train collision<\/a> in Spain, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Wednesday\u2019s disaster \u2013 one of Europe\u2019s deadliest rail accidents this century \u2013 has seen victims\u2019 relatives endure an agonising wait as forensics teams identify the dead, sometimes from individual body parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A legal body set up to handle the identification work, made up of police and forensics experts, announced in a statement late on Sunday the 10 latest confirmed foreign victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It had already announced the deaths of a French and a Portuguese citizen, as well as that of 54 Spaniards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">All but three of the victims are now identified, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Three reports for missing people remain active, the authorities said. They concern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/30\/two-australians-caught-up-in-spanish-train-disaster-government-says\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two Australians<\/a> and one Japanese citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cAs the contacted families have expressed their wish to travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/spain\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> to carry out in-person identification, we are awaiting their arrival in the country,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The accident was Spain\u2019s second high-speed train collision this year and raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/29\/how-did-the-spain-train-crash-happen-what-will-investigators-be-asking\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fresh questions<\/a> about the country\u2019s rail safety, after a crash in the southern region of Andalusia in January killed 46 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The latest disaster struck when a service by state operator Renfe ploughed into the back of a stationary train belonging to Spanish company Iryo outside the central village of Urda, around 130km (80 miles) south of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The failure of an automatic safety system halted all trains on a 63km stretch of track, but a control centre authorised the Renfe service to resume its journey while the other train was still.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The tragedy came one month before a 29 November general election in which Socialist leader Pedro S\u00e1nchez will seek to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/30\/battle-lines-redrawn-spain-snap-election-train-disaster-pedro-sanchez-psoe-pp-vox\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overcome unfavourable polls<\/a> and extend his eight-year premiership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four US citizens and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic were among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-955182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}