The number of fatalities in bus accident today Spain is thirteen people and all are foreign youths, confirmed the Spanish Minister of Interior Jorge Fernandez Diaz, without specifying nationalities.
a bus crashed in Catalonia c hen was carrying college students back from a festival. The minister being carried out identification tasks and contact with families, and from there begin the process of repatriation, “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, to those killed when hitting a bus carrying foreigners with a car on a highway in the province of Tarragona (northeast) students.
As reported by the Catalan Executive, in the ill-fated bus were traveling students from Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Palestine, Japan, Ukraine , the Czech Republic, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland.
the emergency teams were still working to remove the wreckage, which was crossed on the AP7 highway median, said regional government spokesman Jordi Jané. The bus was carrying more than 50 passengers.
Jané said the lifeguards closed the road linking France with Spain on the Mediterranean coastline in both directions. The incident occurred Sunday morning near Freginals, halfway between Valencia and Barcelona.
More than 50 college students participating in the international exchange program Erasmus, had traveled to Valencia attend Las Fallas festival in Valencia known for its fireworks, said in a statement the Catalan Generalitat.
the bus driver has been detained at a police station in the city of Tortosa, added Jané . The road conditions were good at the time of the accident and are investigating the cause, the spokesman said.
The official said most of the passengers were students at two universities in Barcelona, and the time did not comment on their nationalities.
the Erasmus program offers courses to students living in the 28 countries of the European Union and allows them to attend many of the best universities in the continent.
Source: AP / EFE
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