The bodies of 65 of the 69 killed in the Urda train accident delivered to their families

The bodies of 65 of the 69 people who died in the train accident in Urda (Toledo) have already been handed over to their families, as reported this Wednesday by the Integrated Data Center (CID), which maintains the provisional balance of fatalities from the accident that occurred on October 28 at 69.

The identification work ended last Monday at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Toledo and Ciudad Real. Of the 69 deaths, 54 were Spanish nationals and 15 were foreigners, including four Americans, two Australians and two Japanese, as well as citizens of Argentina, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Mexico, Portugal and Tunisia.

According to official data, the fatalities are 40 men and 29 women, all of legal age. Of the 69 identifications made, 56 have been completed using fingerprints by the Criminalistics Service of the Civil Guard and the remaining 13 through DNA analysis by the National Institute of Toxicology, in collaboration with the Civil Guard.

The CID has confirmed that all families have been notified of the identifications, as well as the corresponding consular offices in the case of deceased foreigners. The procedure has consisted of personally communicating each identification to family members before incorporating it into official statistics.