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Two Germans among the fatalities of bus accident in Spain

A day after serious bus crash in Spain: among the 13 dead students, two German and seven Italian girls are. To the cause of the accident, the driver is heard.

Other victims come from Austria, Romania, France and Uzbekistan, informed the authorities of the Region of Catalonia. The death of the victims were between 19 and 25 years.

The accident occurred early Saturday morning, 150 kilometres South of Barcelona. In addition to the driver 56 Erasmus student sat in the Bus interior from 16 countries, the complete a semester abroad in Barcelona.

The driver for the accident responsible?

The students were in a convoy of five buses on the way back from a folk festival in Valencia, as the driver sideswiped the right guard rail on the oncoming lane and got there head-on with an oncoming car crashed.

As the state radio RNE reported, was quoted as saying the bus driver for this Monday in a court in front of an investigating judge to testify as a suspect. According to the Catalan Minister of the interior, Jordi Jané, the suspicion that the driver may have caused the accident. The first investigation indicated that the bus driver could have fallen asleep at the wheel, reported the newspaper “El País”.

fab/qu (dpa, afp)