66 of the 69 people who died in the train accident in Urda (Toledo) have already been identified, according to the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha, which continues to work on closing the three pending cases.
The work, which has been carried out continuously since last Wednesday in the Institutes of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Toledo and Ciudad Real, has allowed confirming the identity of all Spanish fatalities, 54 in total, and another 12 foreign individuals.
Among these identifications are one person of Argentine nationality, one Canadian, one Czech, four Americans, one French, one Japanese, one Mexican, one Portuguese, and one Tunisian.
Fingerprint and DNA support the partial closure of the count
So far, 53 of the 66 identifications have been made using fingerprints, by the Civil Guard's Criminalistics Service, while the other 13 have been completed through DNA analysis carried out by the National Institute of Toxicology, in collaboration with the same service.
The provisional balance still places the total number of fatalities at 69. However, it is expected that the remaining three deceased individuals will be identified in the coming hours.
Formal notification to families is progressing at a different pace: 60 identifications have already been communicated, corresponding to 36 men and 24 women, and the remaining six will be notified as quickly as possible.
The judicial authority reminds that the procedure first requires personal and in-person notification to the family and only then the incorporation of the data into the official statistics publicly disseminated by the Integrated Data Center, established after the activation of the National Protocol for Medical-Forensic and Scientific Police action in incidents with multiple victims.
The three missing victims now depend on the arrival of their families
The three people who have not yet been identified are believed to be of foreign nationality, and the judicial body is awaiting the arrival in Spain of the located families, who wish to personally carry out the identification procedures.
Meanwhile, 47 deceased individuals are already at the disposal of their relatives, and identification tasks continue uninterrupted since Wednesday, with the utmost rigor and speed possible, according to the judicial authority.
