Some of the victims, from left. to right. and top to bottom: Francesca Bonello, Elisa Scarascia, Elena Maestrini, Valentina Gallo, Lucrezia Borghi, Serena Saracino, Elisa Valent and Veronica Matcovici (El Mundo)
Authorities in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, have identified the 13 fatalities were on the bus that crashed into a vehicle on a road in the Catalan province of Tarragona and which injured 24 young people.
the Minister of Interior of Catalonia, Jordi Jané, reported that seven of the fatalities are Italian, two German, a Romanian, a French, an Austrian and Uzbekistan, while there are 24 young people injured.
of these one is in critical condition six in serious condition and 17 non-critical condition, while several uninjured passengers, including one identified as Mexican who did not want to talk to the media.
of the injured in hospitals in the provinces of . Castellón, Tarragona and Barcelona, there are 13 young people from Italy, Ireland, Swedish, Bulgaria, Norway, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and the United Kingdom
the event was recorded at 06: 00 local time (0500 GMT) Sunday in the AP-7 highway when the bus, owned by Autocares Alejandro de Barcelona lost control and overturned, colliding with another car.
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the passengers were students from various universities, notably the University of Barcelona, the Erasmus program, who traveled over the weekend to Valencia, eastern seaboard, for the traditional festivities of Las Fallas.
the bus driver, who gave negative test alcohol and drugs, was admitted to a local hospital waiting to testify before a court for the event.
Jané explained that at the moment it is believed that the accident was caused by “human error” but “is an even hasty conclusion.”
the authorities led by the president of the Catalan, Carles Puigdemont and the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, paid homage at the Plaza de Sant Jaume de Barcelona.
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