The family of José Ángel, missing in Urda, searches for him after receiving a message from his watch

The family of José Ángel San Emeterio, 54, still does not know where he is. He was traveling on one of the trains damaged in the Urda (Toledo) train accident, which has already left 69 dead. His relatives cling to the hope of finding him, after a smart watch he was wearing sent an accident alert to his brothers and placed his last location on the train tracks in Toledo.

"I know he is there," his brother Manuel San Emeterio told the media, who found out about the accident on television and decided to go to Urda after trying to contact José Ángel on several occasions without receiving a response. The device his brother was wearing is configured to send alerts to his family when it detects a fall or accident. Since then, its location continues to appear at the scene of the accident. "Hope, always," Manuel summarized when talking about the possibility of finding it.

The family first traveled to the area of ​​the accident and was later transferred to Toledo, where the Civil Guard took DNA samples and registered the disappearance report. There they remain with other relatives waiting for the authorities to inform them of any news. In the midst of uncertainty, they have at least received some hopeful news: Trece, José Ángel's dog, who was traveling in a carrier, was found alive by the Civil Guard and handed over to his wife.

His sister, Esther San Emeterio, has explained that the wait is being especially hard and that the family members are going through constant emotional ups and downs. "There are peaks of absolute hope and peaks that collapse," he said this Thursday, thanking at the same time the attention of the volunteers, psychologists and Civil Guard agents who are accompanying the families staying in Toledo. "My sister-in-law took a car and went to town and from there, we, my eldest brother and I, came to Toledo, to the Civil Guard Headquarters," he said this Thursday.

However, uncertainty remains. In a message spread on social networks, Esther expressed her despair on Thursday night after almost 48 hours without news from her brother. "I go to bed with the same question and the same pain: Where is my brother?" he wrote. The family member denounces the anguish of not having answers and wonders if it would not be possible to mobilize more teams and transfer forensic experts from other cities.