Spain's transport minister offers his resignation after last week's deadly train crash
Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente offered his resignation on Tuesday in the wake of a train crash on October 28 south of Madrid that killed 69 people.
The tragedy, Spain's second fatal rail collision in less than a year, has intensified scrutiny of railway safety and added political pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ahead of parliamentary elections on November 29
"A transport minister in a country like Spain cannot continue in office with two accidents of this severity in less than a year," he told lawmakers.
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