07 October 2024,   02:51
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Tourist coach carrying 49 people involved in serious accident in north of Spain

The vehicle, carrying around 20 children, plunged off a road, overturned and rolled twice on a trip to the Picos de Europa National Park in the Asturias region. Initial reports speak of two seriously injured individuals and a large number of people with injuries of varying degrees of seriousness

There has been a serious accident on the access road to the popular Lagos de Covadonga lakes beauty spot in the north of Spain, after a coach carrying 49 tourists, around twenty of them children, plunged off the road, according to the Guardia Civil.

The accident happened on 31 July) above the section of the Mirador de la Reina viewpoint. The vehicle was heading towards the Picos de Europa National Park. Initial reports speak of two seriously injured individuals and a large number of people with injuries of varying degrees of seriousness. The two seriously injured have already been transferred, one by helicopter and the other by an intensive care ambulance from Arriondas.

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