Mariano Rajoy (right) and Galicia's regional president Alberto Nunez Feijoo visit the train crash site on Friday. The driver of a speeding train that hurtled off the rails killing 78 people in Spain was detained for "reckless homicide", Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Saturday. (Pool/AFP)
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain / Galicia (AFP) – The driver of a speeding train that hurtled off the rails killing 78 people in Spain was detained for "reckless homicide", Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Saturday.
"He has been detained since 7:40pm on Thursday for the alleged crimes of reckless homicide," the minister told a news conference in the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela where the accident happened.
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