Two California college students injured in deadly train crash in Spain
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Set us as preferred Two Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students who were studying abroad were injured in a high-speed train collision in central Spain last week that killed at least 69 people and injured dozens more.Matt Lazier, a Cal Poly spokesman, said in a statement that the students were receiving medical care and that the university was in touch with their families.Cal Poly has not publicly named the students and did not provide details about their condition.
The Oct.28 collision near Urda, south of Madrid, happened when a high-speed train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks.Most of the dead — 54 people — were Spanish nationals, Spanish authorities said.
Four Americans and one Canadian were among those killed.Their identities had not been publicly released as of Monday.
Authorities had identified one person each from France, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Portugal, Tunisia and the Czech Republic.Authorities said they have three bodies still to identify and three people reported missing — two Australians and one from Japan.Lazier said Cal Poly was communicating with U.S.
Embassy officials in Spain and that the university was “reaching out to its students studying in Spain and across Europe to offer support.” One of the students was Leah Silver-Fajardo, a 21-year-old junior who is hospitalized with a broken knee, broken pelvis, broken femur, several broken ribs, bruised lungs and extensive scrapes and burns, according to a GoFundMe fundraiser set up by her aunt, Rachel Chernin.No online fundraising effort could be found for the second student.Silver-Fajardo had undergone surgery on her knee and was awaiting another to repair her pelvis, Chernin wrote.
She had been moved out of intensive care and faces an extensive hospital stay and long-term rehabilitation.World & Nation Search teams with sniffer ...