Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente has resigned – six days after the high-speed collision during which at the least 69 folks have been killed and dozens injured.
He introduced his choice in Congress, the place he had appeared to present the circumstances of final Wednesday’s crash close to the city of Urda, south of the capital Madrid.
“A transport minister in a rustic like Spain can not stay in workplace after two accidents of this seriousness in lower than a yr,” he mentioned, additionally referring to a lethal crash in January in Andalusia, southern Spain.
The most recent tragedy in Urda occurred when a state-operated Renfe high-speed prepare smashed into the again of one other stationary prepare operated by the Iryo firm.
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