One German killed in lethal Spain train crash

The victims of Sunday’s crash, all aged between 19 and 25, also enclosed a Romanian, a Frenchwoman, an Austrian and a tyro from Uzbekistan, Jordi Jane, who heads adult interior matters for Catalonia, pronounced on a radio.

“Some of them were not wearing chair belts,” Jane said.

The students from 19 countries – a UK, Ireland, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Palestine, Japan, Ukraine, a Czech Republic, New Zealand, Hungary, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland – were all enrolled during universities in Barcelona, many as partial of a Erasmus European sell programme.

As good as a dead, 24 people were injured, with 7 in a critical condition.

Identification of a victims has proven formidable as many were not sitting in their reserved seats on a lapse journey.

“Erasmus Student Network Spain would like to ask a open for option in honour for a families and friends, to whom we send a deepest condoloences,” a Erasmus tyro classification said.

“In addition, we would like to appreciate all a volunteers and puncture services for their committed work in these unhappy circumstances.”

Dangerous widen of road

The motorist mislaid control of a manager during around 6 am on Sunday, attack a vituperation before swerving into a wrong side of a highway and crashing into an approaching car.

The collision occurred nearby a city of Freginals, about 150 kilometres (95 miles) south of Barcelona, as a students were returning from a Fallas festival in eastern Valencia, famous for a blazing of hulk statues.

Freginals mayor Jose Roncero Pallares pronounced that that widen of highway had a story of accidents.

“I don’t know why, that highway looks excellent and it’s a true line,” he told AFP.

“It rained a lot that night and maybe that played a role.”

No drugs or alcohol

The driver, who was questioned by military Sunday, is in complete caring being treated for chest injuries, Jane said. He was due to seem before a decider on Monday, though a conference has been postponed, a authorised source told AFP.

Media reports on Monday suggested that a motorist might have been defunct during a wheel.

He was an worker with seventeen 17 years’ knowledge and no reported accidents.

“It appears an unlimited tellurian blunder and not a automatic disaster was to blame,” Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said.

“The motorist has tested disastrous for ethanol and drugs so those factors are ruled out.”