The bus, with eight folks inside, left the N-541 highway and fell into the Lérez river after destroying the safety fence of the bridge that crossed it within the place of Pedre.
Only two folks, the driving force of this bus (of the Monbus firm, which lined the Lugo-Vigo line) and one among its passengers, a girl who had gotten into the car in Monterroso (Lugo), have managed to outlive the affect.
All the deceased, who’re between 21 and 70 years previous, have been positioned, three of them contained in the bus and the opposite three in several sections of the Lérez river, and their our bodies have been eliminated by rescue groups.
The youngest, simply 21 years previous, is Eneas Valverde Ruibal, a resident of Nigrán (Pontevedra), a promising Galician boxer who studied in Lugo and returned house to have dinner along with his household.
The City Council has decreed three days of official mourning for his demise, throughout which period the flags of all official buildings will fly at half mast.
Two different of the deceased, mom and son, are Cruz Castro Eiras -retired after years as an worker of a pastry shop- and Jaime Val Castro, who resided within the Pontevedra municipality of Lalín and have been natives of the Agolada city corridor, additionally in Pontevedra.
The fourth Galician deceased individual is a highschool instructor, Guadalupe Díaz González, a 44-year-old native of Lugo and resident of Lalín, mom of two kids aged 8 and 5 and a language and literature instructor at IES number one in O Carballiño ( Ourense), the place he had began educating this course.
De Agolada was additionally the fifth of the deceased, María Mercedes Castro Blanco, 58, a cattle rancher by occupation and ex-wife of a PP councilor on this city.
In these final 4 circumstances that they had gotten on the bus to journey to Pontevedra, the place that they had family with whom they have been going to spend Christmas Eve.
The municipal company of Lalín, by unanimity of all of the political teams, has determined to decree from tonight two days of official mourning and put the flags at half mast for the demise of three of its neighbors on this accident.
The sixth and final fatality is a girl of Peruvian nationality residing in Soutomaior (Pontevedra), of whom it has solely transpired that her title is Edit, who caught the bus on the cease earlier than the accident web site, close to Cerdedo’s home. -Cotobade the place I labored taking good care of an aged individual.
All the households of the deceased have been positioned and have obtained psychological help from professionals specialised in catastrophes, a service altruistically provided by the Official College of Psychiatry of Galicia.