People in the southern Spanish towns of Huelva and Adamuz held ceremonies Sunday a week on from the rail disaster that killed 45 people, many of them from the area.<\/p>\n
Last Sunday’s crash between two high-speed trains happened near the village of Adamuz in the southern region of Andalusia, but most of the victims came from Huelva.<\/p>\n
The ceremony in Huelva began with a minute’s silence, at 7:43 pm, the time of the accident.<\/p>\n
It was from Huelva that one of the trains in the disaster started its journey, and it accounted for 36 of the dead.<\/p>\n
The Huelva-Madrid train collided head-on with a train travelling from Madrid on route to Malaga. As well as those killed, 22 people are still being treated in hospital for injuries.<\/p>\n
In Adamuz, where local people were among the first on the scene to help the victims, a funeral mass was held Sunday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the ceremony, Mayor Rafael Angel Moreno spoke of the grief local people felt at what had happened.<\/p>\n
The Bishop of Cordoba, Jesus Fernandez, presided at the funeral ceremony.<\/p>\n
The working theory for investigators is that a crack in one of the rails might have caused a derailment. Driver error has been ruled out. One of the two drivers died in the crash.<\/p>\n
But the crash — and a series of separate incidents on Spain’s rail network in the days that followed — have raised doubts about the safety of the country’s railways.<\/p>\n
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