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Anger at Spanish air crash as first burials take place

spain, madridMadrid - Relatives of the 153 people killed in the Madrid air disaster this week expressed anger Saturday and predicted the investigation would be a cover-up.

"In the end the pilot will be blamed. He's dead and the whole business will get bogged down," an unidentified relative said.

Police and psychologists were brought in to speak to the relatives and in order to prevent a scuffle, as many expressed doubt that the identification process would proceed flawlessly.

Following the death of 62 Spanish soldiers in an aircraft crash in Turkey in 2003, many of the families were given the wrong remains to bury.

Spanish boat rescues 49 migrants out of Mediterranean

Madrid - A Spanish fishing boat has rescued 49 African migrants from their sinking inner-tube craft in the sea area between Libya and Malta, the Spanish Foreign Ministry has reported on Friday.

Following the rescue Spanish authorities had ordered the migrants to be brought to Libya, from where they had likely begun their journey.

However, Libyan authorities at the port of Tripoli initially refused to let them enter, and were admitted only after a telephone call from Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos to his Libyan counterpart.

According to Spanish media reports, the migrants initially refused to leave the fishing boat upon arrival in Libya, and barricaded themselves inside the vessel.

Investigators say new question emerge in Madrid air disaster

Madrid Plane CrashMadrid  - New questions have arisen in the search for the cause

More bodies retrieved after Spanair crash, identification difficult

More bodies retrieved after Spanair crash, identification difficultMadrid  - The identification of bodies of victims from Wednesday's plane crash in Madrid will take time, a Red Cross spokeswoman said Thursday.

More bodies were recovered from the wreck by rescue workers overnight. At least 153 people died in the crash, and 19 people remain critically injured.

A temporary morgue has been set up in an exhibition hall in the capital as the process of identifying bodies begins.

At least eight killed as tourist coach crashes in Spain

Madrid - At least eight people died after a bus carrying tourists crashed at Oropesa del Mar, north of Valencia, on Sunday.

Missing gastronomist spotted in Switzerland

Missing gastronomist spotted in Switzerland Madrid  - Swiss gourmand Pascal Henry, 46, who disappeared mysteriously in Spain after eating at one of the country's finest restaurants on June 12, has been seen in Geneva, Spanish police said Thursday.

Swiss police informed their Spanish counterparts through Interpol that surveillance cameras had filmed the man withdrawing money through bank tellers.

About 30 Spanish police had just completed a new, five-hour search for Henry in the surroundings of El Bulli, the restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava where he went missing.

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