Four United States citizens were among 69 people killed in a high-speed train collision in Spain last week, authorities said, according to The Guardian's report, which carried the account of Agence France-Presse. The Guardian reported that one national each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic were also among the dead.
According to The Guardian, the 69 people killed included 54 Spaniards. The paper described the collision as one of Europe's deadliest rail accidents this century and said the disaster took place on a Wednesday. The report did not give the exact date of the crash, and it did not say how many people were injured.
The Guardian's summary attributes the casualty figures to authorities, and it does not say whether the totals are preliminary or final. The article's byline credits Agence France-Presse, the international news agency, as the author of the report.
According to The Guardian, the material it provided ends partway through a sentence about the collision's toll, so further detail from the full article was not available for this account. The summary does not identify the specific place where the collision occurred within Spain, the trains involved, or the cause of the crash.
The Guardian's headline and summary list the same nationalities, and the material reviewed for this account included no other report on the casualties, so no differing figures were available to compare.