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At least 14 people have been killed and 43 injured after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on Spain's northeastern coast.

The coach crashed and overturned on the AP7 highway near Freginals, around halfway between Valencia and Barcelona, around 6am local time on Sunday.

Four of the injured were seriously hurt, local reports said.

The bus, which was carrying 56 passengers, was returning from the renowned "Fallas" fireworks festival in Valencia, officials in the Catalonia region said.


"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," Jordi Jane, Catalonia's regional interior minister said at a televised news conference.

Mr Jane said the majority of students on the bus were enrolled at Barcelona University.

They were studying with the European Union student exchange programme Erasmus.

He could not confirm the nationalities of the dead and said the cause of the accident was not yet clear.

The local Catalonian government tweeted: "For information on the accident in #Freginals call +34 900400012 #Catalonia @112"

Emergency workers are still working to clear the wreckage on the AP7, which runs along Spain's eastern coast.

Carles Puigdemont Casamajo, president of the Catalan government, has declared two days of mourning and has cancelled a trip to Paris in the wake of the crash.


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