Spain Train Crash Driver Accused Of ‘Reckless Homicide,’ Minister Says [GRAPHIC VIDEO]

CNN reports that Police in Spain have accused the driver of a train that derailed in northwestern Spain of "reckless homicide," the country's interior minister said Saturday.

Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters in Santiago de Compostela that the judge has until Sunday evening local time to decide whether to press formal charges against Jose Francisco Garzon.

Garzon has spent the last few days in the hospital guarded by police but is now released and is now in police custody. CNN also reports that the judge had not yet questioned him.

The speed of the train has been the focus of the questions as it entered a curve in the track near Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening. The country's railway agency saying it was his responsibility to brake before going into the high-risk curve where the train careered off the rails and smashed into a wall.

Fernandez Diaz told reporters earlier Saturday there are "rational indications" that the accident is the fault of the driver. Pressed on what those indications are, he declined to give more details.

Galicia regional police chief Jaime Iglesias told reporters Friday that the driver was under police detention because of "a crime." Asking about what crime, he responded: "Well ... in connection to the accident, in connection with his recklessness, in connection with causing the accident."

Although the tragic crash is over and the wrecked eight-train-car has been removed from the tracks the grim duty of identifying the dead still continues. A spokeswoman for the Galicia regional supreme court, told CNN late Friday that 75 victims had been identified from at least 78 people killed.

At least 63 of the dead are Spanish, she said. Also among them is one U.S. citizen, Ana-Maria Cordoba from Arlington, Virginia, and a number of people from Europe and Latin America.

About 80 people who were injured in the crash remained in hospital Saturday, about a third of them still listed in critical condition. At least five U.S. citizens were injured, said State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf.