13 kills in Spain Erasmus Students Bus Crash in Catalonia

13 people have been killed after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish motorway between the cities of Barcelona and Valencia.

According to a statement from the Catalan government thirty more people on the bus carrying 57 people were injured.

 The accident occurred near Freginals, 150km (93 miles) south of Barcelona. Jordi Jané, the Catalan interior minister, said the victims were between the ages of 22 to 29 and “the majority are Erasmus students of various nationalities.”

"The driver of the coach "hit the railing on the right and swerved to the left so violently that the bus veered onto the other side of the highway" said Jordi Jane, Catalonia's regional interior minister. "

There were students on board, many of them foreign students studying in Catalonia and in Barcelona who had travelled to Valencia for the Fallas and were returning," Jane added.