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The pieces of the puzzle
Should he have published the recordings of the control room prior to Urda's accident? Some readers dissipate the information approach
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"Baby, tell me something": the last message from the husband of an Urda victim
Javier Barrio recounts in a letter the despair he lived with his children while waiting for news of his wife
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Iñaki Barron: "The railway has much to envy in air mode safety, especially in training"
The president of the railway research authority CIAF and spokesman of the Urda Accident Monitoring Committee of the College of Engineers of Caminos, demands more training for the train professionals and an urgent audit of the railway system
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Sánchez calls for a mass vote on 29-N: "The best recipe against involution is called mobilization"
"Even the Pope has voted!," said the president at a pre-campaign event in Tarragona, marked by the electoral roll in the United States
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The Madrid-Sevilla line, to be examined: two courts and two cases of the European Public Prosecutor's Office remain active
In March 2020, the Government authorized the work on the reopening of diversions in the corridor, and included work in Urda, which was financed from European funds. The Office of the Prosecutor reports on three invitations to tender, which involved a disbursement of €136 million
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Are the polls moving from the call and after the train accident?
A month later, the PP has lost some ground in all the polls, and Urda's accident has barely moved the average. PP and Vox add majority in nine out of ten simulations of the model of EL PAIS
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Spain's rail authorities face European fraud probe after Urda rail disaster
Prosecutors begin investigating EU funds meant for upgrading the Spanish railway line where a train crash killed 69 people.
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Liberalizing is not privatizing
The liberalization of high-speed transport must be translated not only into lower prices and more places, but also into more public resources to ensure the good state of the roads
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The Iryo de Urda train went through a thorough review two days before the accident.
Hitachi Rail staff supervised the signage team at Renfe workshops in Madrid
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Adif has been working since 2019 on a project to reduce the "probability and effect" of human errors in communication with trains
The railway manager has allocated €2.9 million to three contracts, and it is bidding another one, to digitise the orders with which the traffic is managed and which the drivers receive. Today they are handwritten in paper books
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The lives that stopped forever in Urda
After a week of identification and certification, these are the victims of the tragic train accident that has shocked Spain
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Sara Carbonero reflects on death in a television debate following the Urda accident: "I'm afraid, especially for the people who stay"
Invited to Cristina Pardo's' La Mesa 'program in Antena 3, the journalist, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2019, explained that she is very aware that "living is a miracle": "You just have to go for a walk in the hospitals"
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Ayuso is not happy with the resignation of Puente and asks that of Sánchez: "There have been two tragedies that do not occur even in the third world countries"
PSOE and Mas Madrid rely on the return of progressionism following the victories of Lula and Democrats in the United States
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Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visit injured in train crash at Toledo hospital
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia arrived at Toledo University Hospital on Thursday to visit those injured in the train accident in Urda – in which at least 69 people died – who are being treated at this hospital, 15 of whom are in the ICU. The King and Queen will meet with the medical team and subsequently visit several of the injured, who will be accompanied by their families. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from oledo University Hospital.
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The untied ends of Urda's sinister in judicial and technical investigations
The investigations focus on the inrelated orders from the control centre of Adif to the AVE and Iryo in distress, for the resumption of the march with the LZB security system fallen and with 35 years in operation, and the latter's inability to start before the collision
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"We go out fired": survivors report how the deadly train crash in Spain was
In the small rural town of Urda, the survivors of the railway accident, which has caused at least 68 deaths, recover not only from different degrees of wounds, but also from the shock caused by the powerful impact. In the spaces for the care of the injured and the assistance of the affected, inhabitants of the area have mobilized to support in different ways. So far they have also come to family desperate to know their loved ones.
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Spain: railway accident leaves several dead and injured
♪ A high-speed train fired another convoy in the back of Urda (Toledo), south of Madrid. The Government of Spain points to a human error, after a reported failure in the automatic signalling system.
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The distressing count of the dead in the tragedy: a civilian guard, a police...
The identification of the bodies focuses on the Forensic Anatomic Institute of Toledo while the relatives provide data in the commanders to locate close relatives
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The cranes arrive at the site of the Urda train accident to begin the rescue work: "The priority is to locate the trapped vicitmas"
The railway traffic on the morning of this Wednesday, which has left at least 68 dead and 77 injured, has required heavy machinery to lift the two cars of the Iryo that have derailed after suffering an attack of an Ave when they covered the route Madrid- Sevilla
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Spain high-speed train crash kills 68, injures over 100
A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 68 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century. The second such accident to strike Spain this year will raise fresh questions about the country's rail safety, with the transport minister speaking of an "error" and "inexplicable circumstances" that led to the collision. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Urda, south of Madrid.