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2 Nov 2026, 11:50

In the latest news regarding the victims of the deadly train collision in Spain on Sunday, November 1st, it was reported that Marta Shahbazi, an Iranian-born researcher, also lost her life in this incident.

Dr. Marta Shahbazi Alonso, a 41-year-old citizen of Spain and the UK, and a prominent researcher in the field of "developmental biology" at the University of Cambridge, was on her way to attend a ceremony to receive an award.

The "deadliest rail disaster in Europe" occurred on Wednesday, November 6th, following the collision of a high-speed train traveling from Madrid, the capital, to the city of Seville with a train that had stopped on the same track.

In this incident, which preliminary investigations attributed to "human error," a total of 69 people lost their lives.

Dr. Marta Shahbazi, who was of Iranian father and Spanish mother, was a professor at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and led a research group in the cell biology laboratory.

Ms. Shahbazi had tweeted several times about the "Women, Life, Freedom" protests and had expressed her support for the demonstrators.
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