Authorities reveal that there may be a victim to be located, taking into account that 43 reports of missing people were registered
The death toll from Sunday’s train accident in Adamuz, near the Spanish city of Córdoba, has risen to 42, after emergency services found a body on one of the trains involved, the Alvia.
According to data provided by the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, 38 autopsies have so far been carried out at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Córdoba.
Also this Tuesday, three bodies were removed from the Alvia, which had already been located and counted, but whose removal from the metal amalgam of the carriages proved difficult.
The number of fatalities from the accident remains at 42, while 43 reports of missing people have been registered, meaning that there may still be one victim to be located.
According to official data, 122 people injured in Sunday’s accident were treated in hospitals and 39 remain hospitalized, 13 of them in intensive care units.
A high-speed train Iryo 6189, coming from Málaga-María Zambrano and heading to Madrid-Atocha, derailed at 7:45 pm on Sunday near Adamuz, a town in the north of the province of Córdoba, about 30 kilometers from the capital of the same name.
Its last two carriages invaded the opposite lane and collided with a Madrid-Huelva long-distance Alvia train, which was passing on the invaded line at the time.
The Alvia’s first two carriages were thrown off the road and fell into a four meter high embankment, with their passengers being the most seriously affected.
This is the most serious railway accident in Spain since the derailment of the high-speed train (Alvia) on July 24, 2013, in Angrois, near Santiago de Compostela, which resulted in 80 deaths and 144 injuries.
