Reporting from the scene
In the course of fields of alfalfa and almond timber, a seemingly limitless procession of ambulances, police automobiles and firetrucks drove out and in of the crash scene, as rescue helicopters flew low overhead. The trains appeared twisted collectively, a mass of mangled metallic.
Dozens of Civil Guard officers, some sporting the white protecting fits utilized by forensic investigators, had been inspecting the scene and gathering proof. Damaged cables and fallen utility poles had been scattered throughout.
A gaggle of Catholic monks walked out from the realm the place the trains had been positioned. “We got here to wish for the lifeless,” mentioned the Rev. Luis Lucendo, 63, a vicar of Toledo and parish priest in Villacañas, a close-by city.
“One man advised us that his spouse had died, and I used to be capable of make the signal of the cross over her,” Father Lucendo mentioned. “They had been going to spend the day in Córdoba, however that is the place their journey ended.”
