Third assault in eight months on Monbus: seven buses are shot at in Ferrol

The Monbus firm suffers one other assault on its bus fleet. Seven coaches had been broken in Ferrol (A Coruña) after being shot at.

These new incidents occurred this Monday, at daybreak, whereas the buses had been parked on the firm’s services in Catabois.

The seven autos that suffered harm had been attacked with pictures from a compressed air weapon. As a end result, seven home windows and two windshields had been damaged.

What occurred pressured the corporate to reorganize the companies to have the ability to adjust to all of the routes, though there was “some particular delay” in class transport strains and within the one which covers the route between Ferrol and A Coruña.

The firm has reported what occurred to the National Police.

Third assault since October 2022

The firm has suffered three assaults of comparable traits, with pictures, within the final eight months.

The first occurred firstly of October 2022 on a bus that made the journey between Pontedeume and Ferrol. The bus, with passengers on board, had acquired three bullet wounds whereas touring by means of Fene (A Coruña). One in opposition to the bodywork and the opposite two in opposition to the facet home windows, though the double glass prevented the projectiles from passing by means of it. No one was damage.

The second of the assaults occurred final February in Betanzos (A Coruña). Two buses that began the route early within the morning had been hit by bullets, additionally made by a compressed air weapon.

Both buses had been built-in service strains, a faculty transport that folks from common transport additionally get on. They had been empty on the time of the assault and the drivers weren’t injured. The impression of the bullets had additionally reached the home windows of the buses.

In this second assault, it had emerged that the actions could possibly be on account of a doable labor battle by which the corporate can be immersed, one thing that the corporate denied.

Both instances had been reported to the Civil Guard.

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