Spain to pay $24 million in compensation to victims of high-speed train crash


Emergency personnel work next to one of the trains involved in the accident, near Adamuz, in Cordoba, Spain, January 19. REUTERS/Susana Vera

MADRID, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Spain will ‌pay out 20 million euros ($24 million) in compensation to the victims ‌of last week's high-speed train crash that killed 45 people and left ‌more than 150 injured, Transport Minister Oscar Puente said on Tuesday.

The nation is still reeling from the January 18 disaster in Adamuz near the southern city of Cordoba that caused one of ‍the highest death tolls from a train crash ‍in recent European history and ‌the highest in Spain since 2013.

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