It has emerged that all 13 people killed in Sunday morning’s coach crash in northern Spain were young foreign women.
The bus was carrying Erasmus students from several countries home from the Fallas Festival in Valencia when it collided with a car on a motorway.
All the others, more than 40, were taken to various hospitals. By mid-afternoon nearly 30 were still being treated, nine in a serious condition.
The coach had travelled overnight, taking students back to Barcelona when it crashed near Tarragona in Catalonia at around six o’clock on Sunday morning.
#UPDATE 13 killed as bus carrying foreign exchange students crashes in Spain https://t.co/E3ho8JE77R #Freginals pic.twitter.com/BOxJyX0kn6— AFP news agency (@AFP) 20 March 2016
The number of dead was revised downwards from an earlier estimate of 14.
The passengers came from well over a dozen countries all over the world. According to the Catalan government they came from Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, the Palestini
