Spanish judicial authorities said 66 of the 69 people killed in the Wednesday, Oct. 28, collision near Urda had been identified by Sunday, including 12 foreign nationals.
A Centro Integrado de Datos (CID) update issued at 5:30 p.m. EST (22:30 UTC) Sunday, Nov. 1, kept the provisional toll at 69. The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla-La Mancha (TSJCLM), the region’s high court, circulated the update.
The identified group included 54 Spanish nationals and 12 foreign nationals. Four were U.S. citizens and one was Canadian; the others came one each from Argentina, the Czech Republic, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal and Tunisia.
Fingerprint analysis accounted for 53 identifications, while DNA analysis accounted for 13, the CID said. Authorities had informed families in 60 cases, with six notifications still pending. Three victims remained unidentified, and the update did not name them. Officials were waiting for relatives planning to travel to Spain to assist with identification.
The update also listed active missing-person reports for two Australians and one Japanese citizen. Renfe said the collision involved one of its AVE services and an Iryo train in Toledo province.
The Cambridge Stem Cell Institute confirmed that researcher Marta Shahbazi died in the Oct. 28 crash and said she was an Affiliate Assistant Professor who led a research group at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
The Straits Times described the Urda collision as Spain’s second high-speed train crash in 2026. Spain’s government reported that a January crash in Andalusia killed 46 people.
