Urda high-speed train collision memorial Mass in Toledo, Digi Mart USA News (Toledo, Spain): A Mass in memory of the 69 people killed in the Urda railway accident in central Spain was held Tuesday night in Toledo. King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia attended the service, dressed in black.
The ceremony was led by Francisco Cerro Chaves, archbishop of Toledo and primate of Spain. About one hundred relatives of the victims, along with members of the government and the opposition, also took part in the service at the Cathedral of Santa María of Toledo, which was built in the 13th century.
During the Mass, 69 candles were lit in memory of the victims. The collision of two high-speed trains on October 28 in the municipality of Urda left 69 dead and more than 100 injured.
It is the deadliest rail disaster in Spain since 2013 and the second major railway accident in the country this year, after the one in Adamuz, in Andalusia in southern Spain, in January, which killed 46 people. Both tragedies have renewed debate over the maintenance of the rail network and passenger safety on Spain’s high-speed system, the second longest in the world after China’s.
