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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sam Jones in Madrid

Spanish train drivers call three-day strike after deadly railway crashes

A train wreckage.
The wreckage of a train in Adamuz, southern Spain, after a crash on Sunday that killed at least 45 people. Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP

Spain’s largest train drivers’ union has called a three-day nationwide strike to demand measures to guarantee the safety of railworkers and passengers after two deadly crashes this week killed at least 46 people, including two drivers.

The death toll from Sunday’s collision between two trains near the Andalucían town of Adamuz rose from 43 to 45 on Thursday afternoon after two more bodies were recovered from the crash site. On Tuesday, a driver was killed and 37 people injured when a train was derailed by the collapse of a retaining wall near Gelida in Catalonia.

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