Spain train crash: Young athlete and former minister among victims

A collision between a high-speed Renfe train and a stationary Iryo train on the same track near Urda in central Spain killed 69 people and injured more than 100 on Wednesday morning. Among the victims were Julieta Gallego, a 24-year-old long jumper with Madrid club AD Sprint, and Fátima Báñez, 59, a former employment minister and chair of the CEOE. The victims’ bodies were taken to the forensic institute in Toledo, where families are providing DNA samples to help identify them, and the death toll could rise. It was Spain’s second deadly rail disaster this year and the country’s worst since 2013.