00:00Well, I'm at Tocha train station, and of course that's where one of the trains set off from, headed for Welba, and another train was due to arrive.
00:10And this has become an important point for all the families of those victims.
00:15Many of them have come to a special centre here, set up to help them by offering psychological attention,
00:22offering them help to see if there are any survivors and if their loved ones are in any of those hospitals where they've been taken to near Cordoba.
00:32Now, although the high-speed trains behind me have all been suspended as a result of last evening's accident,
00:41there are trains and buses taking family members who need to go down to Cordoba.
00:46They leave from here, and they'll be making the long journey to try to identify their loved ones if they are among those that have been found in those wagons dead.
00:59And many of them will be making the very difficult journey to give samples of their DNA to the police there.
01:06We know so far there have been 39 people confirmed dead, but there are about 150 injured.
01:14And Juanma Moreno, the president of Andalusia, has said that they are particularly concerned about the conditions of one child and 11 adults who were fighting for their lives.
01:30So, tragically, that death toll could rise.
01:34We still don't know the causes of this accident.
01:37And here we have been hearing from Renfe, the chairman, Álvaro Fernández Herradía.
01:46He concurs with the transport minister, who basically said these were very strange circumstances indeed,
01:54because this first train that set off from Malaga to Madrid, when it got to that village near Cordoba,
02:03it was travelling on a straight track.
02:06There was no reason, apparently, for it to have come off those rails.
02:11And he said there was no cause of excess speed.
02:15That train was travelling at a normal speed.
02:18One train was doing 205 kilometres per hour.
02:22Another was doing 210 kilometres per hour.
02:25He said those were normal speeds for trains like that, and they will be investigating to find out exactly what went wrong.
02:33And we have the prime minister who is due to travel to the site as well?
02:37That's right.
02:41The prime minister has cancelled his trip to Davos.
02:44He will be going to the scene to see for himself the wreckage of those two trains,
02:50to talk to the family members, and particularly to thank the people who locally helped
02:57to try to even carry some of those people from the trains to take them to safety and to warmth
03:07and to offer them some support in the hours of last night.
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