Spain's rail authorities face European fraud probe after Urda rail disaster

The European Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into possible fraud involving European Union funds meant to renovate and upgrade safety, signalling and communications systems on Spain's Madrid-Seville high-speed line. The inquiry follows the October 28 crash at Urda, in which 69 people were killed, one of Spain's worst railway disasters. It is the second EU fraud inquiry into Spanish railways this year, after 46 people died in January's Adamuz disaster; the two accidents on the same line claimed 115 lives. Investigators are examining the LZB signalling system, which monitors train positions and had gone down before the Urda crash. The disaster has shaken Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government ahead of parliamentary elections on November 29, and transport minister Óscar Puente resigned this week. Source: BBC News, November 6, 2026.

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