The death toll from a tragic high-speed train crash near the town of Adamuz has risen to 46 after another woman died in hospital. The investigation points to a technical failure of the track, while sabotage and human error have been ruled out.
A passenger on one of the high-speed trains that collided twelve days ago near the city of Adamuz in Andalusia succumbed to her injuries in hospital on Friday. The number of victims of the tragic accident thus rose to 46, writes TASR according to reports from the DPA and AFP agencies.
A woman (42) from the city of La Palma del Condado has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Córdoba since the accident, the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE wrote. Shortly before her death, the authorities announced that 17 people still needed intensive care at the hospital.
More than 150 people were injured in the train collision on January 18. Experts assume that the cause of the accident could have been a damaged joint on the rails. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlask ruled out sabotage. The investigators also ruled out the fault of the train drivers, one of whom died. King Philip VI of Spain and Queen Letizia on Thursday joined hundreds of mourners at a memorial mass for the victims in the city of Huelva, which was the terminus of one of the trains.
