Dr Marta Shahbazi, an affiliate associate professor at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and a group leader at the city's Medical Research Council, died in a Spanish train collision that killed at least 69 people, The Guardian reported. According to the same report, the collision took place on Wednesday.
The Guardian reported that Shahbazi was travelling to a conference to receive an award for scientific excellence in developmental biology when the collision occurred. The newspaper's headline described her as "inspiring" and noted that tributes had been paid to her. The report was written by Haroon Siddique.
BBC News reported separately that a Spanish research centre had confirmed her death days after she was declared missing. The BBC summary does not name the research centre.
The two reports differ in emphasis. The Guardian reports her death in the collision on Wednesday, while the BBC reports that her death was confirmed after she had been declared missing. Neither summary gives a date for that confirmation.
The available summaries do not say where in Spain the collision happened, what caused it, or which conference Shahbazi was travelling to. The figure of at least 69 deaths comes from The Guardian's report.
Sources: BBC News: Cambridge scientist dies in Spanish train crash; The Guardian: Tributes paid to ‘inspiring’ University of Cambridge scientist who died in Spanish train crash.