One Czech national and four US citizens among Spain train crash dead, officials say

Four U.S. citizens, and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia, and the Czech Republic, were among the 69 killed in last week's high-speed train collision in Spain, authorities said. Wednesday's disaster, one of Europe's deadliest rail accidents this century, has seen victims' relatives endure an agonizing wait as forensics teams identify the dead, sometimes from individual body parts. The legal body set up to handle the identification work made up of police and forensics experts announced in a statement late on Sunday the 10 latest confirmed foreign victims. It had already announced the deaths of a French and a Portuguese citizen as well as that of 54 Spaniards. Over the weekend, residents and local officials held a memorial mass to honour the victims and expressed solidarity with emergency workers and volunteers. The accident was Spain's second high-speed train collision this year and raised fresh questions about the country's rail safety after a crash in the southern region of Andalusia in January killed 46 people.