{"id":49516,"date":"2026-10-30T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49516"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:55:33","slug":"spanish-train-crash-death-toll-rises-to-69-in-grim-search-for-victims","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/spanish-train-crash-death-toll-rises-to-69-in-grim-search-for-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish train crash death toll rises to 69 in grim search for victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Rescuers picked through mangled carriages on Thursday in a search for victims of Spain&#8217;s second fatal high-speed \u200btrain crash this year, with the death toll rising to 69 and the public demanding explanations for the latest accident.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Cranes had worked through the night \u200cto lift parts of the wreckage of Wednesday&#8217;s crash, while emergency workers removed what appeared to be a body wrapped in a blanket from one of the trains in the central Spanish province of Toledo.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Regional leader Emiliano Garcia-Page said the number of deaths had risen to 69 and that human remains had been found during rescue efforts, which now involved crane operations, particularly on a carriage that remained overturned.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Among those killed in \u200bEurope&#8217;s deadliest train accident since a derailment in Santiago de Compostela in 2013 was Fatima Banez, a former labour minister who chaired the social and corporate responsibility arm \u200bof Spain&#8217;s employers&#8217; association.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Spain&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said 42 foreign citizens from seven countries were involved in the crash, information available so far showed, \u2060of whom one was killed and at least seven injured.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Authorities said 57 of those injured remained in hospital.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49517,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49516","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Spain's second fatal high-speed \u200btrain crash","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49519,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49516\/revisions\/49519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}