RUNDOWN
• The accident occurred on Saturday night near Vigo and the border with Portugal.
• Two corpses had been recovered while two others, including the bus driver, had been rescued and taken to hospital according to the emergency services.
• Due to the bad weather, rescue operations had to be suspended overnight but resumed Sunday morning.

Six people died after a bus plunged into a river overnight while crossing a bridge in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region.

The accident occurred on Saturday night near Vigo and the border with Portugal. The regional La Voz de Galicia newspaper said the bus was carrying people visiting their loved ones jailed in Monterroso in central Galicia.

Two corpses had been recovered while two others, including the bus driver, had been rescued and taken to hospital according to the emergency services.

Spain’s Civil Guard later said two more bodies were found on Sunday. The woman’s body was recovered but a man’s corpse was yet to be retrieved.

“There could have been more people inside the bus,” the emergency services had said on Twitter and posted a photo of the vehicle in turbulent waters.

Due to the bad weather, rescue operations had to be suspended overnight but resumed Sunday morning.

According to a Civil Guard spokesman in the city of Pontevedra, some 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the site of the accident, the accident took place at a spot with a steep gradient, making access difficult. He also added that the bus driver had been tested negative for alcohol.

By Jane Kibathi