{"id":713333,"date":"2026-01-22T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/713333\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:37:11","slug":"after-fatal-rail-accident-a-missing-dog-that-captivated-spain-is-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/713333\/","title":{"rendered":"After fatal rail accident, a missing dog that captivated Spain is found"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADRID — After back-to-back fatal train crashes<\/a> sent shock waves through Spain, some good news arrived on Thursday: Boro, the missing dog, was found.<\/p>\n

Days earlier, Boro’s owner Ana Garc\u00eda issued a desperate plea<\/a> to help find him after the dog bolted Sunday in the aftermath of the high-speed train crash in southern Spain<\/a> that killed at least 43 people. Garc\u00eda, 26, and her pregnant sister were traveling with Boro on the train that derailed.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, forest firefighters in southern Spain found the black-and-white pooch, writing on X: \u201cAt this time of the morning, we share some good news: Boro, the missing dog, has been found.” <\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda is seen holding Boro, embracing him with one of her legs in a brace in images that the firefighters posted online.<\/p>\n

The search for Boro appeared to provide Spaniards something to hope for amid the week\u2019s tragedy. <\/p>\n

For days, people had rallied online to find him, amplifying Garc\u00eda\u2019s call and sharing video of her interview. Photos of Boro, a medium-sized black dog with white eyebrows went viral alongside phone numbers for Garc\u00eda and her family. Television broadcasters covered the search as did Spanish newspapers.<\/p>\n

When the search ended on a positive note, Spaniards celebrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cA picture of hope in Adamuz. Boro is returning home to his family,\u201d one user on X wrote<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda, her sister and the dog had been traveling Sunday by high-speed train from Malaga, their hometown in southern Spain,<\/a> to the capital Madrid, when the tail of their train car jumped the rails for reasons that remain unclear<\/a>, and smashed into another train.<\/p>\n

The collision killed dozens and injured more than 150 people. Rescue crews helped Garc\u00eda and her sister out of the tilted train car. That’s when she briefly saw Boro before he ran.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, if you can help, look for the animals,\u201d a limping Garc\u00eda told reporters, choked up and holding back tears. \u201cWe were coming back from a family weekend with the little dog, who\u2019s family, too.\u201d <\/p>\n

She spoke to the cameras with a blanket draped over her shoulders and her face still visibly bruised from Spain\u2019s worst rail accident<\/a> in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reached one of Garcia’s family members by text message on Thursday. \u201cI can confirm that we have the dog and there’s hope,” the person wrote, before saying they had to tend to Garcia’s sister still in the hospital.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press journalist Teresa Medrano in Madrid contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID — After back-to-back fatal train crashes sent shock waves through Spain, some good news arrived on Thursday:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[213534,8502,933,3907,2000,299,4179,27085,104,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-713333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-213534","9":"tag-accidents","10":"tag-animals","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-rail-accidents","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115939497892434928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}