Urda crash: the King and Queen will attend the funeral for the victims in Toledo Cathedral

The Archbishop of Toledo, Francisco Cerro Chaves, announced at a press conference on Wednesday that Toledo Cathedral will host a funeral mass on Thursday 12 November at 19:00 for the 69 victims of the Urda rail crash, according to El Debate. Royal Household sources later reported that the King and Queen will attend the funeral, according to EFE.

According to El Debate, the mass will be celebrated by the archbishop himself and concelebrated by the five bishops of Castilla-La Mancha and the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello. Cerro Chaves said the funeral will serve "to pray for the victims and to accompany the families, whom we carry in our hearts", according to both sources. On 31 October a funeral mass was already held in the parish of San Juan Bautista in Urda.

The collision between a Renfe AVE and an Iryo train on 28 October caused 69 deaths, all of them now identified, according to the Integrated Data Centre as reported by Castilla-La Mancha Media, which adds that 59 bodies have already been handed over to their families. On Wednesday 22 people remain in hospital in Castilla-La Mancha, four in intensive care, according to the regional government cited by EFE. The causes remain under judicial and technical investigation.

Story under review: the date of the funeral and the attendance of the King and Queen are reported by EFE and El Debate based on the archbishop's press conference and Royal Household sources, but the announcement on the Archdiocese of Toledo website and in the Royal Household's agenda could not yet be opened.