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“Sweetheart, tell me something”: the last message from the husband of a Urda victim

Javier Barrio describes in a letter the desperation he experienced with his children while waiting for news of his wife

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“Sweetheart, tell me something”: the last message from the husband of a Urda victim

Carmen de Santa Ana, a 66-year-old woman from Seville, died in a train crash in Urda on October 28. She was on her way to travel when the AVE train she was on collided with an Iryo train. At the time of her death, she was close to retiring from her job at El Corte Inglés. Her husband, Javier Barrio, recalls waiting anxiously with their children for news of her fate.

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