At least twelve people have been killed in a bus accident in … – RTVE

At least twelve people have been killed in a bus accident in … – RTVE

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All of the wrecked bus travelers were hikers Bullas Murcia town of EFE / Martial Guillén

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Up to 30 ambulances rushed to the scene to evacuate the wounded EFE / Martial Guillén

RTVE.es / AGENCIES

At least Twelve people have died in an accident tonight coach about 23.00 hours the municipality of Cieza (Murcia), the height of the Venta del Olivo, as has been confirmed RTVE.

There are also more than 30 injured, some of them seriously , which have been taken to nearby centers. Fourteen of them are in hospital Morales Meseguer Hospital fifteen Cieza, five in the Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca five Hellin hospital, four in Caravaca Hospital and two at the Reina Sofia

All bus passengers were travelers from the nearby town of Bullas Murcia and were part of a parish tour

The Director General of Emergency Government of Murcia, Luis Gestoso, reported that Ten victims died on the spot, and number eleven has died on arrival at hospital Virgin Arrixaca Murcia city, where he had been transferred. The late twelfth was the parish priest, 36.

The bus plunged down a bridge

The coach company Calasparra Jose Ruiz Campos returned from Madrid where has been precipitated by a bridge on the existing road linking the Venta del Olivo with Calasparra and has been lying on its side on a slope.

Emergency services work at the identify the bodies , but for the moment there are only three identified.

Thirty ambulances have been mobilized to transport the injured to various hospitals.

The Government representative has confirmed that the driver of the car survived and will have practiced the corresponding alcohol tests and drugs, which were negative According to the Civil Guarcia for the moment reason that triggered the incident are unknown

. The vehicle was “in perfect condition”

Jose Ruiz, owner of the company, explained that the vehicle, “nine or ten years’ old, had spent the two days before and ITV was” in perfect condition “. The bus traveled Two drivers, who are among the wounded .

According to the businessman, never before in his 40 years had suffered a tragedy like this. A few miles ahead circulated another bus that was carrying more neighbors and yes managed to reach Bullas.

The President of the Government of Murcia, Alberto Garre, the government delegate in Murcia Joaquin Bascuñana spokesman of the regional executive director Jose Gabriel Ruiz, and the CEO of Emergency Luis Gestoso, have flocked to the site to monitor the development of the operational unfolding emergencies.