Seventh physique found after bus plunged into Spanish river9 hours in the past

Spanish authorities introduced Monday that they’d recovered one other physique after a bus plunged 30 meters (100 ft) from a bridge right into a river on Christmas Eve, elevating the toll of the deadly crash to seven lifeless and two injured.

The search was resumed when a surviving passenger stated that the middle-aged girl she was travelling with was nonetheless lacking, in accordance with the Galician authorities’s delegate Jose Minones.

The preliminary seek for eight as an alternative of 9 folks was primarily based on the assertion of the driving force – the opposite survivor.

Spanish authorities say the causes of the autumn of the bus from a bridge are nonetheless unclear, though the dangerous climate that night time has been prompt as a probable trigger by regional president Alfonso Rueda.

The driving force examined damaging for alcohol and medicines and was launched Monday from the hospital. The opposite surviving passenger continues to be hospitalized.

The blue roof of the half-sunken automobile could possibly be seen within the Lerez river beneath the bridge. Authorities say they may drag it from the water on Tuesday.

The crash occurred on the night time of Christmas Eve within the mountainous northwestern Galicia area. Emergency providers had been alerted by a motorist who noticed the damaged railing on the bridge as he drove in heavy rain.