Spain: PM Sanchez gives speech on train collision

...delivered help after this terrible catastrophe that impacts all Spanish people, all institutions stepped up, the media also was here to cover the events. We've seen all outlets here and all wherewithals were put into action to help the victims of this accident. Thank you for your help. Hello. Thank you very much for your work. I'd like to express my sympathy for those who've lost loved ones. Our heart goes out to them. We are here to answer all your questions and here to help. Thank you. And I'd like to stress once more, as I said earlier this morning, that we are deeply saddened by this accident. There are 64 dead for the moment. Both the trains, work is still ongoing, the fire brigade and the rescue teams are looking for more people to discover if there are more people who are dead in carriages. I would like to thank the Castilla, Andalusia, and other autonomous communities, including the Valencia community. We are at the epicenter of this situation. We know that there are a number of people who are taken care of in hospitals, 15 are in ICUs between life and death, and we will see if there's more information when it comes to victims. There are still four to five people in the URDA center, and psychological support is mobilized the red cross and services of the autonomous community is here this guardia civil is here canine units will be deployed to find more people if there are any and investigations will continue overnight as long as necessary to retrieve people alive or dead thank you for being here from the bottom of my heart thanks to all the civil services the Guardia Civil and all services who've been on deck since the very beginning the King the ministers many authorities and presidents of autonomous communities I'd like to thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you for doing everything you can prime minister thank you president thank you mayors for your solidarity and your support the town of Urda stepped up to help the victims of this terrible tragedy. The whole of Spain is saddened of this event, and we would like to express our deepest condolences to the families of victims. Some are in hospital. We wish them a speedy recovery behind. All victims, injured or dead, there are families, there's anguish, families who do not know the state of their close ones. There's a lot of suffering and we all share in this suffering. The Spanish government would like to say, just like the mayors and the president of the Castilla Autonomous Community said, the highest priority is to find the highest number of living victims and then to provide psychological and material help to the injured and the families of victims then as the president and the mayors expressed earlier it is critical to stress the professionalism the outstanding professionalism of civil services and other services and the coordination of between many institutions local authorities the Municipal Council of order autonomous communities all those who were have been involved to rescue victims after this accident the second goal for us is to shed light on the causes of this event why has this tragedy occurred the Minister of Transportation and I have tried to find the sources of this accident and the independent commission of railroad accidents as the president said the legal authorities are judicial authorities are working the ministry is striving to look into the causes of this accident and we will go to the bottom of this work if there were failures we will find them if there have been problems in the security system, we will bring a response to them, firm responses to both, because these are two events in the same year, and I cannot say if they are the same causes, but the independent commission will make a statement to this. This is the work that should be done by the judicial services. The Renfe and the whole Spanish railwork system are concerned, and if we find that we need to strengthen the security system to rebuild the trust in our high-speed network, we will do that. possible for Spain to suffer two high casualty events in just in the space of one year all necessary measures will be taken with the highest speed and rigor to rebuild trust in our railway system I spoke with the president of the Castilla autonomous community and we will declare three day mourning from the 29th to the 31st the whole country is mourning the victims and we are we stand and next to families, and we will give all the information to the citizens of Spain. We will do our utmost so that families will be, are able.