Bishop Jesús Fernández of Córdoba has said that the “confusion” of the authorities prevented priests at the scene of the recent train crash in Adamuz from administering last rites to victims. Fernández said priests at the scene of the accident couldn’t administer last rites to the victims because authorities “thought the dead were already dead…
Spain authorities’ ‘confusion’ prevented priests from administering last rites to train crash victims
Members of the Spanish Civil Guard work along with other emergency personnel January
19, 2026, next to one of two high-speed trains that were involved in a deadly derailment in
Cordoba, Spain, near Adamuz. Photo: OSV News/Susana Vera, Reuters

