INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL (EFE).— A religious funeral for kings Felipe VI and Letizia said goodbye yesterday Thursday at 45 people who lost their lives on January 18 in the ccrash of two trains in Adamuz, a municipality in southern Spain.
The ceremony took place in a sports hall in Huelva, from whose province 28 of the 45 deceased were from.
More than 300 relatives of the fatal victims participated in that event, which was officiated by the bishop of the diocese of Huelva.Santiago Gómez Sierra, together with the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Luis Javier Argüello, and the Bishop Emeritus Jose Vilaplane.
On behalf of the Spanish government, the first vice president of the government, María Jesús Monteroand the Ministers of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, and of Agriculture, Luis Planas.
The president of the conservative party also attended Popular Party (PP) and opposition leaderAlberto Núñez Feijóo, and the president of the Junta—the regional government—of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, together with the mayor of Huelva, Pilar Miranda, among other authorities.
This religious funeral had been called before the government and the Board of the autonomous community of Andalusia agreed a few days ago to postpone the State tribute scheduled for this Saturday due to the inability to attend expressed by many families.
Liliana Sáez spoke on behalf of the relatives of the deceased, who assured that “they will fight to know the truth.”
“We are the 45 families who will fight to know the truth, because only the truth will help us heal this wound that will never close. We will know the truth. We will fight so that there is never another train, but we will do it from serenity, from relief, from the peace of knowing that in the arms of the Virgin they now sleep,” said this spokesperson.
His intervention thanked the residents of Adamuz for the help provided as soon as the accident became known, and extended, among others, to the security and emergency forces, who “did what they could with the information and means they had available.”
Of the total of 126 people who were treated after the train accident, 18 – 17 adults and one child – remain admitted to different hospitals, four of them in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
In turn, on the same Thursday, but in Madrid, where seven of the deceased were from, a mass in the Almudena cathedral also honored the victims.
The institutional representation in this case was headed by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, both from the Popular Party.
The train accident occurred when an Alvia train bound for Huelva collided with a convoy of an Iryo, which invaded the opposite track near Adamuz.
The Spanish Minister of Transport, Oscar Puentedefended this Thursday in the Senate that the railway system in Spain is “very safe”, with a risk “close to zero, because zero risk does not exist.”
The main cause of the Adamuz accident is a defect in the rail or in the welding or a combination of both. “That is what must be defined at this moment,” Minister Puente pointed out, in an appearance that lasted approximately seven hours.
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