Two sisters who helped passengers after the train crash in Spain speak of their experiences

Описание: (20 Jan 2026)
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Córdoba, Adamuz, Spain - 20 January 2026
1. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Remedios Pedregosa, home care coordinator at the Adamuz nursing home:
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"I called my sister. We went to the nursing home. We took everything necessary that was there. All the resources and materials available at the senior residence were also offered, and we quickly moved here to the municipal pavilion to help and to prepare ourselves for whatever was needed at that moment."

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Adamuz, Spain - 20 January 2026
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Córdoba, Adamuz, Spain - 20 January 2026
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Encarni Pedregosa, home care coordinator at the Adamuz nursing home:
"I can't forget the image of the man crying, searching for his entire family, and in the end, they were deceased. It's very hard, truly very hard."
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Remedios Pedregosa, home care coordinator at the Adamuz nursing home:
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"What you do is try to be there for everything they need and so on. But when you get home and see the situation you've experienced, that's when you realize the reality of the tragedy, the drama, the sorrow that was lived there at that moment."
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Two sisters working at a nearby nursing home did not hesitate to help victims when a high-speed train in southern Spain derailed on Sunday evening, colliding with another train and killing at least 41 people.

Both coordinate home care for elderly residents in their hometown, Adamuz.

When they heard about the accident, they asked their superiors if they could take medical supplies from the nursing home to the building where the passengers were being temporarily housed.

“We took everything necessary that was there (nursing home). All the resources and materials available at the senior residence were also offered, and we quickly moved here to the municipal pavilion to help and to prepare ourselves for whatever was needed at that moment,” Remedios Pedregosa told The Associated Press.

Her sister said she was comforting the families who were searching for their loved ones.

“It's true that those were very unpleasant moments when you couldn't find the relative. You didn't see them, you accompanied them, and it broke your heart. But you had to try to be stronger and that's it. Try to make it a little more bearable,” said Encarni Pedregosa.

It comes as Spain woke to flags at half staff on Tuesday as the nation began three days of mourning for the victims while emergency crews continued to pull bodies from the wreckage.

The official death toll of Sunday’s accident rose to 41 by Tuesday morning, after Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente Santiago said that another corpse had been discovered when a crane lifted a damaged carriage.

Officials have repeatedly warned that that death count may rise, with emergency workers still probing for bodies among what Andalusian regional president Juanma Moreno called “a twisted mass of metal.”

Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told Spanish national television RTVE late Monday that searchers believe they have found three more bodies still trapped in the wreckage.

It is not clear if those bodies are included in the official count.

The crash took place Sunday at 7:45 p.m. when the tail end of a train carrying 289 passengers on the route from Malaga to the capital, Madrid, went off the rails.


AP video shot by Alicia Leon Perea

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