🔸 Following the news about the victims of the fatal accident of two trains in Spain on Sunday, November 10, it was reported that Marta Shahbazi, a researcher of Iranian origin, also lost her life in this accident.
Dr. Marta Shahbazi Alonso, a 41-year-old citizen of Spain and Great Britain, and an outstanding researcher in the field of "developmental biology" at the University of Cambridge, was on her way to participate in the award ceremony.
"Europe's deadliest train accident" occurred on Wednesday, November 6, following the collision of a high-speed train traveling from Madrid, the capital, to Seville, with a stopped train on the same line.
A total of 69 people were killed in this accident, which occurred due to "human error" according to preliminary investigations.
Dr. Marta Shahbazi, who has an Iranian father and a Spanish mother, was a professor at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and was in charge of a research group in the cell biology laboratory. 🔸 Shahbazi, who also has two small children, was on his way to receive the prestigious prize of the "Spanish Society for Developmental Biology" on Wednesday last week.