两名澳大利亚人在上周的高铁相撞事故中遇难，西班牙当局在确认三名受害者身份后证实了这一消息。
Two Australians are among 69 people who died in last week's high-speed train collision after Spanish authorities confirmed the identities of three more victims.
由警方和法医专家组成、负责处理身份确认工作的法律机构周一晚间发表声明，宣布最新确认的三名遇难者——两名澳大利亚人和一名日本公民。他们的姓名尚未公布。
A legal body set up to handle the identification work, made up of police and forensics experts, announced in a statement late on Monday the three latest confirmed victims – two Australians and a Japanese citizen. They have not been named.
澳大利亚外交贸易部周三上午发表声明，证实正在为两名遇难澳大利亚人的家属提供领事协助。
In a statement on Wednesday morning, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed it was providing consular assistance to the families of two Australians who had died.
“我们向家属致以最深切的慰问，愿他们度过这段艰难时光。”外交部长黄英贤周二晚间表示，她代表澳大利亚向西班牙外交大臣何塞·曼努埃尔·阿尔瓦雷斯以及西班牙人民，就这起“毁灭性”的列车相撞事故致以“最深切的慰问”。
"We send our deepest condolences to the families at this difficult time." On Tuesday evening the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said she sent her "deepest condolences on behalf of Australia" to her Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, and to the people of Spain following the "devastating" train collision.
“我们的思念与失去亲人者、受伤者以及所有受此悲剧影响的人同在。”周三发生的这场灾难——是本世纪欧洲最致命的铁路事故之一——导致遇难者亲属经历煎熬的等待，法医团队正在确认死者身份，有时只能依靠个别身体残骸。
"Our thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones, those injured and all affected by this tragedy." Wednesday's disaster – one of Europe's deadliest rail accidents this century – has resulted in victims' relatives enduring an agonising wait as forensics teams identify the dead, sometimes from individual body parts.
遇难者包括54名西班牙公民和15名外国人——4名美国公民、2名澳大利亚人、2名日本人，以及各1名来自阿根廷、加拿大、法国、墨西哥、葡萄牙、突尼斯和捷克共和国的公民。
The victims include 54 Spanish nationals and 15 foreigners – four US citizens, two Australians, two Japanese and one each from Argentina, Canada, France, Mexico, Portugal, Tunisia and the Czech Republic.
周五，澳大利亚外交贸易部证实，正在为两名与事故有关的澳大利亚人的家属提供领事协助。
On Friday, Dfat confirmed it was providing consular assistance to the family of two Australians in connection with the crash.
这起事故是西班牙今年发生的第二起高铁相撞事故，再次引发了对该国铁路安全的质疑，此前1月份安达卢西亚南部地区发生的一起事故造成46人死亡。
The accident was Spain's second high-speed train collision this year and raised fresh questions about the country's rail safety, after a crash in the southern region of Andalusia in January killed 46 people.
最新灾难发生时，国营运营商Renfe的一趟列车撞上了西班牙公司Iryo一列停靠列车的尾部，地点位于马德里以南约130公里（80英里）的乌尔达村外。
The latest disaster struck when a service by state operator Renfe ploughed into the back of a stationary train belonging to Spanish company Iryo outside the central village of Urda, about 130km (80 miles) south of Madrid.
自动安全系统故障导致一段长63公里的铁路线上所有列车停运，但控制中心在另一列火车仍处于静止状态时，授权Renfe列车恢复行程。
The failure of an automatic safety system halted all trains on a 63km stretch of track, but a control centre authorised the Renfe service to resume its journey while the other train was still.
工党议员杰森·克莱尔周四表示，这类事故是“人们永远、永远都无法从中恢复过来的”。
Labor MP Jason Clare said on Thursday accidents of this kind were "something people never, ever recover from".
他对澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）电视台表示：“看到屏幕上的这些画面，全国上下此刻都处于震惊之中。这简直太恐怖了。”
"The whole country is in shock at the moment, seeing these images on our screens. It's just horrific," he told ABC TV.
