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| Spain: 7 of 13 student bush crash victims were Italian | Spain: 7 of 13 student bush crash victims were Italian |
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| MADRID — The 13 students killed in a bus crash in northeastern Spain this weekend were all women from other countries, including seven from Italy, a Catalan regional government official said Monday. | |
| The other six included two Germans, an Austrian, a French woman, a Romanian and an Uzbekistani, Interior department director Jordi Jane said. | |
| Jane told reporters the victims were aged between 19 and 25 years. | Jane told reporters the victims were aged between 19 and 25 years. |
| The bus carrying 57 university students crashed Sunday near Freginals, halfway between the eastern coastal cities of Barcelona and Valencia. They were returning from a firework festival in Valencia. | The bus carrying 57 university students crashed Sunday near Freginals, halfway between the eastern coastal cities of Barcelona and Valencia. They were returning from a firework festival in Valencia. |
| The students were studying in Barcelona as part of the Erasmus exchange program. Barcelona University planned to hold five minutes of silence at noon in memory of the students. | |
| Twenty-three of the passengers remained in hospital, including six in serious condition, Jane said. | |
| The official said the bus driver was being investigated for possible negligent homicide. The driver was initially reported to have been uninjured but was taken into a hospital in the town of Tortosa late Sunday with lung problems. | |
| He had been due to appear before a judge on Monday but the session was postponed. | |
| Road conditions were good at the time of the crash. Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Sunday that the driver had passed alcohol and drug tests. | |
| Jane said families of the victims were arriving in Catalonia on Monday. | |
| The Erasmus program provides foreign exchange courses for students, mostly from the 28-nation European Union. | |
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