EU investigating fraud in Spain’s deadly crash rail line

MADRID: The European Union is investigating the possible misuse of EU funds earmarked for the renovation of a Spanish railway line where a train crash killed 69 people, prosecutors said Friday. The October accident on the Madrid-Seville high-speed line was one of the worst railway disasters in Europe this century, overshadowing Spain’s upcoming general election in November. A similar investigation into the same stretch of track had already been opened in March in the wake of another accident

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