On Sunday, 13 people died after a bus crashed students on a road between Valencia and Barcelona. According to Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, all are foreign young people.
The official said they are performing tasks identification and contact with families, and from there will begin the procedure repatriation, that “now starts and probably last days,” he said.
Earlier, the head of the Interior of the Government of Catalonia, Jordi Jané, relented and stood at thirteen, not fourteen, as he had said before the fatalities when hitting a bus carrying foreign students with a car on a highway in the province of Tarragona (northeast).
As reported by the Catalan Executive, in the ill-fated bus they were traveling students Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Palestine, Japan, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland.
the bus was carrying in total 56 students from Erasmus university exchange -program of foreigners students of different nationalities who returned to see the Night of Fire of the Fallas festival in Valencia, and collided with a car.
Jané initially attributed to a “human error” caused the accident.
in a press conference, the head of Catalan Interior confirmed that the dead are Erasmus students from various universities, especially University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University Barcelona, and people of various nationalities related to them.
the accident also caused 43 injuries of different consideration being treated in various hospitals in the area.
According to the first information, the bus, which was going to Barcelona, lost control, crossed the median, overturned and collided with another vehicle on 06.00 hours (05.00 GMT).
Al-scene came 17 fire crews and a crane to remove the bus from the road and rescue people who were trapped, along with ambulances and Civil Protection services to assist victims.
a team of 17 forensic work to identify deceased task is being complicated because many of them had no documentation.
the driver of the bus wreckage was negative in the control of drugs and alcohol, according to court sources, and the vehicle about three years old, met all safety standards, the company said.
the bus ranked dead last in a convoy of five vehicles of the same company returning to Barcelona after seeing burning failures Valencia, a of the most popular festivals in Spain.
the trip was hired by the association European students Network, student organization in which several Catalan universities participate, the rector of the University of Barcelona, Dídac Ramírez said.
the accident is one of the most serious in recent years in Spain.
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