Name: Spain deploys cranes to find bodies in train wreckage | REUTERS
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Spanish rescuers on Tuesday brought in cranes and heavy machinery as they sought to recover the remains of people still missing in one of Europe's deadliest train crashes that left at least 41 dead.

The accident on Spain's high speed rail network occurred Sunday evening in Cordoba province, about 220 miles south of Madrid.

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The Andalusian regional government said a train operated by the private group IS Irio derailed, causing a collision with a state run Alvia passenger train.

Experts say a faulty rail joint may be key to determining the cause of the derailment that led to the disaster.

On Monday night, police in Cordoba set up makeshift tents to collect DNA samples from relatives of victims in hopes of identifying the dozens of dead.

Spain's interior minister told a state broadcaster on Monday police had received 43 missing persons reports which broadly matched the initial death toll.

But he said a full accounting would not be complete until rescue teams had lifted the worst affected carriages to see what lay underneath.

He said at least three bodies have been seen still trapped inside the wreckage.

On Tuesday, relatives of the dead and missing waited outside Cordoba's emergency center.

Osiris Sevilla told Reuters her husband, Victor Tehran, was on one of the trains.

She said Victor didn't like trains and worried what might happen if the train was stranded somewhere.

She said this was his first time he traveled by rail.

She's waiting for an identification and holding out hope she might see him again, she said.

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Spain deploys cranes to find bodies in train wreckage | REUTERS

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