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Spain train crash: US, Japan and Canada citizens among dead, authorities say

Spain train crash: US, Japan and Canada citizens among dead, authorities say
Cranes lift wrecked train carriages as rescuers search for victims following a collision between two trains in Urda, Spain. Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP

The train disaster, one of Europe’s deadliest rail incidents this century, killed 69 people, including 54 Spaniards

Four US citizens and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic were among the 69 killed in last week’s high-speed train collision in Spain, authorities said.

Wednesday’s disaster – one of Europe’s deadliest rail accidents this century – has seen victims’ relatives endure an agonising wait as forensics teams identify the dead, sometimes from individual body parts.

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.

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