6 Dead After Bus Plunges Off Bridge Into River in Spain

Emergency services work at the scene of an accident where a passenger bus plunged off a bridge into the river Lerez in Cerdedo-Cotobade, northwestern Spain, on Dec. 25, 2022. Guardia Civil/Handout via Reuters

Six people died and two were injured after a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into an overflowing river in northwestern Spain, emergency services said on Sunday.

Two survivors—the vehicle’s 63-year-old driver and a female passenger—were pulled out of the river by firefighters with rope and taken to nearby hospitals with varying degrees of injury.