Fourteen dead as Spanish bus carrying students crashes

Emergency personnel operate on the Spanish AP-7 motorway near Freginals, Amposta south of Tarragona following a fatal bus accident that claimed the lives of 14 foreign students an injured 43 others early on March 20, 2016.

At least 14 people died after a bus travelling between the Spanish cities of Valencia and Barcelona crashed early on Sunday, a local government official said, adding it had been carrying a group of university students, many of them foreign.

The bus was carrying 56 passengers, according to officials in the northeastern region of Catalonia. Many of the students on board were participating in the Erasmus exchange programme between European universities.