Safety questions mount as Spain’s high-speed rail disaster death toll rises to 69

Baku, October 29, AZERTAC The death toll from Spain’s high-speed rail disaster rose to 69 on Thursday as questions mounted over why safety systems failed to prevent a train from slamming into another that was stopped ahead, Anadolu Agency reported. Emiliano Garcia-Page, president of Castile-La Mancha, announced the latest death following Wednesday’s collision near Urda in Toledo province.

Of 110 people hospitalized, 60 had been discharged and 50 remained under treatment, he said. The four most seriously injured among 15 critical patients were improving, offering grounds for cautious optimism, he added. Crews were removing wreckage and identifying victims after recovering additional human remains overnight. Garcia-Page said authorities did not expect to find more bodies beneath the…