- Title: Cuba tourist bus crash kills 3 locals, four foreigners
- Date: 12th January 2019
- Summary: HAVANA, CUBA (JANUARY 11, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF NEWS CONFERENCE WITH TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LUIS LADRON DE GUEVARA, DIRECTOR OF PASSENGER TRANSPORT OF THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT IN CUBA, SAYING: "The following passengers were identified as foreigners: Three Spaniards, five Argentineans - two of them died. In other words of the five Argentines,
- Embargoed: 26th January 2019 01:44
- Keywords: bus crash eastern Cuba killed three locals four foreigners Guantanamo
- Location: GUANTANAMO AND HAVANA, CUBA
- City: GUANTANAMO AND HAVANA, CUBA
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Ground Accidents/Collisions,Disaster/Accidents
- Reuters ID: LVA0029WP926F
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A bus crash in eastern Cuba killed three locals and four foreigners and left another five passengers in critical condition, state-run provincial radio station Radio Guantanamo reported on Friday (January 11).
Two Argentine women, a German woman and a French man were among those killed in the accident on Thursday, Radio Guantanamo said. Of the 40 passengers on the bus that crashed on a scenic but hazardous stretch of road between the eastern towns of Baracoa and Guantanamo, 22 were foreigners.
Thirty-one of the injured were being treated at the local hospital. The report did not specify if foreigners were among those in critical condition.
Witnesses told state-run Cuban News Agency that the driver had tried to overtake another vehicle but lost control on the wet road, resulting in the bus flipping over. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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