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

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.

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00:01Four U.S. citizens and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic
00:08were among the 69 killed in last week's high-speed train collision in Spain, authorities said.
00:14Wednesday's disaster, one of Europe's deadliest rail accidents this century,
00:18has seen victims' relatives endure an agonizing weight as forensics teams identify the dead,
00:23sometimes from individual body parts.
00:26A legal body set up to handle the identification work made up of police and forensics experts
00:32announced in a statement late on Sunday the 10 latest confirmed foreign victims.
00:37It had already announced the deaths of a French and a Portuguese citizen as well as that of 54 Spaniards.
00:44Over the weekend, residents and local officials held a memorial mass to honor the victims
00:49and express solidarity with emergency workers and volunteers.
00:53The accident was Spain's second high-speed train collision this year
00:58and raised fresh questions about the country's rail safety
01:01after a crash in the southern region of Andalusia in January killed 46 people.

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