Bloody hell.
At least 14 people have died and 43 have been injured after a bus full of university students crashed in eastern Spain.
The bus was returning foreign exchange students to Barcelona from a fireworks festival. It overturned near the town of Freginals, some 150km southeast of the Catalan capital.
Bus crash south of Barcelona kills some 14 people, including students returning from firework display – officials https://t.co/nBfOPEVsgM
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) March 20, 2016
The driver survived the crash and has been taken to a police station.
BBC reports the exact cause of the accident is yet to be officially identified, but Catalonian Interior Minister Jordi Jane said the bus overturned after violently colliding with a guardrail.
The Catalan government’s President Carles Puigdemont Casamajo has also declared two days of mourning after the accident.
Our thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims.
