On the morning of October 28, a high-speed train collision occurred in Urda, Spain, when a train slammed into the rear of another stopped train. The disaster, described as one of Europe’s deadliest rail incidents this century, resulted in 69 deaths.
Spanish officials confirmed the identities of most of the victims late Sunday. Among the 69 killed were 54 Spaniards and several foreign nationals, including four Americans and one each from Canada, France, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Portugal, Tunisia, and the Czech Republic. Relatives of the victims have endured an agonizing wait as forensics teams worked to identify the dead, sometimes from individual body parts.
The accident was Spain’s second high-speed train collision in 2026 and has raised fresh questions about the country’s rail safety. This follows a previous crash in the southern region of Andalusia in January that killed 46 people.