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The driver of a bus heading to Algeciras has died and 35 other people have been injured,

some of them seriously, in a rear-end collision with another coach and a passenger car
recorded early this Sunday on the A-92 motorway at the height of Moraleda de Zafayona
(Granada).

This event took place, for reasons that the Civil Guard is investigating, minutes before 6:00,
at kilometer 210, in the direction of Seville, of the aforementioned motorway, one of the main
road routes in Andalusia, also coinciding with Operation Crossing the Strait (OPE).

The accident between the two buses -in which a total of 101 people were traveling- and
tourism has conditioned traffic in the area, where an alternative detour has been enabled,
and traffic has not been restored until shortly after noon, according to A spokesman for the
armed institute has informed.

Passengers of different nationalities were traveling on the buses, mostly of North African
origin, according to health sources, who were heading to Algeciras to later cross to Morocco.

A total of 35 people - aged between 18 months and 70 years - have been treated in three
hospitals, the majority (21) in the San Cecilio Clinic of the Health Technology Park (PTS) of
Granada, eleven in the Neurotraumatology Virgen de las Nieves, also in the capital, and the
rest in the High Resolution Hospital in the neighboring town of Loja.

According to the latest update on the status of the injured, provided by health sources
around 6:30 p.m., of the total number of those affected by the accident, only eight people
remain in the two hospitals in the capital of Granada this afternoon.

These are three men who are in a very serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of
the Neurotrauma Hospital, and a fourth who is still under observation and who could be
discharged in the next few hours; in addition to three children under 18 months, 8 and 11
years old, and their mother, who are admitted to the PTS Hospital ward.

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