Spanish voters abandon Pedro Sánchez's ruling left-wing parties after a high-speed train crash killed 69 people in central Spain
The crash site near Urda, Toledo, on 28 October, where Spain's LZB collision-prevention system had failed 170 times in the year before the disaster, transport minister Oscar Puente revealed.Dr Marta Shahbazi, the Cambridge biologist confirmed among the 69 killed, had been travelling to receive an award from the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology when the crash occurred on Wednesday.
Polls show support for Pedro Sánchez's Socialist-led coalition collapsing as voters blame the government for the deadliest rail disaster in Spain in decades. The crash, on 28 October near Urda in central Spain, killed at least 69 people when a high-speed train slammed into a stationary one. The opposition Popular Party and Vox have surged in the aftermath, placing Sánchez's re-election prospects in serious jeopardy.
Cambridge researcher Dr Marta Shahbazi, a mother of two travelling to collect a scientific excellence prize, was among those killed.
Four Americans and one Canadian are also confirmed dead; two California Polytechnic State University students were seriously injured, including third-year student Leah Silver-Fajardo.
