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MADRID - A bus carrying university students back from a fireworks festival crashed Sunday on a main highway in northeastern Spain, killing 14 passengers air force one and injuring 30 others, a Catalonian official said.The bus, which was carrying more than 50 passengers, appeared to have hit the right-hand side barriers of the AP7 highway before cartwheeling across the road and slamming into the central fence, landing on its side, said Jordi Jane, spokesman for Spain s northeastern Catalonia province.Jane air max 1 said emergency rescue workers were still working to clear the wreckage that had closed the major highway linking Spain with France along the Mediterranean coast in both directions. The crash took place near Freginals, halfway between Valencia and Barcelona.Jane said the students - part of the Erasmus exchange program - had traveled to Valencia to take part in the renowned Fallas fireworks festival and were returning when the bus crashed.The bus driver was being held at a police station in the city of Tortosa, Jane said. Road conditions were good at the time of the crash and an investigation is looking into the cause of the accident, he said. Jane said most passengers on the bus were studying at two universities in Barcelona, he but would not com mizuno de ment immediately on their nationalities.The Erasmus program provides foreign exchange courses for students from counties within the 28-nation European Union and enables them to attend many of the continent s best universities. Ajde Day in Pictures
Police detained 17 suspects believed involved in a series of deadly ambushes at the world s largest gold mine, an official said Tuesday.The men were rounded up Monday at several locations within a few miles of the Grasberg mining complex operated by U.S. conglomerate Freeport McMoRan Copper Gold, Inc., said Papua Police Chief Bagus Ekodanto.Police also confiscated ammunition, but it was unclear if the bullets matched those found at the scene of shootings that left three people dead, including a 29-year-old Australian, an Indonesian security guard and a policeman.At least 12 others, most of them police, were wounded in the five days of attacks starting July 11 along a road between the mine and the town of Timika. We are still questioning the suspects intensively to determine their role in the three fatal shooting incidents, said Ekodanto, declining to identify them or give furthe stanley fr r details. It remains unclear who was behind the ambushes.Arizona-based Freeport has been targeted with arson, roadside bombs and blockades since production began in the 1970s during the U.S.-backed Suharto dictatorship.In a conference call with analysts, the company s CEO, Richard Adkerson, said he knew of 15 arrests, including one man he said apparently acknowledged being a sniper in the attacks, and said six people had been charged. The reason for the discrepancy was not immediately clear. stanley cup We have been assured from the highest levels of stanley cup government in Indonesia they are committed to
MADRID - A bus carrying university students back from a fireworks festival crashed Sunday on a main highway in northeastern Spain, killing 14 passengers air force one and injuring 30 others, a Catalonian official said.The bus, which was carrying more than 50 passengers, appeared to have hit the right-hand side barriers of the AP7 highway before cartwheeling across the road and slamming into the central fence, landing on its side, said Jordi Jane, spokesman for Spain s northeastern Catalonia province.Jane air max 1 said emergency rescue workers were still working to clear the wreckage that had closed the major highway linking Spain with France along the Mediterranean coast in both directions. The crash took place near Freginals, halfway between Valencia and Barcelona.Jane said the students - part of the Erasmus exchange program - had traveled to Valencia to take part in the renowned Fallas fireworks festival and were returning when the bus crashed.The bus driver was being held at a police station in the city of Tortosa, Jane said. Road conditions were good at the time of the crash and an investigation is looking into the cause of the accident, he said. Jane said most passengers on the bus were studying at two universities in Barcelona, he but would not com mizuno de ment immediately on their nationalities.The Erasmus program provides foreign exchange courses for students from counties within the 28-nation European Union and enables them to attend many of the continent s best universities. Ajde Day in Pictures
Police detained 17 suspects believed involved in a series of deadly ambushes at the world s largest gold mine, an official said Tuesday.The men were rounded up Monday at several locations within a few miles of the Grasberg mining complex operated by U.S. conglomerate Freeport McMoRan Copper Gold, Inc., said Papua Police Chief Bagus Ekodanto.Police also confiscated ammunition, but it was unclear if the bullets matched those found at the scene of shootings that left three people dead, including a 29-year-old Australian, an Indonesian security guard and a policeman.At least 12 others, most of them police, were wounded in the five days of attacks starting July 11 along a road between the mine and the town of Timika. We are still questioning the suspects intensively to determine their role in the three fatal shooting incidents, said Ekodanto, declining to identify them or give furthe stanley fr r details. It remains unclear who was behind the ambushes.Arizona-based Freeport has been targeted with arson, roadside bombs and blockades since production began in the 1970s during the U.S.-backed Suharto dictatorship.In a conference call with analysts, the company s CEO, Richard Adkerson, said he knew of 15 arrests, including one man he said apparently acknowledged being a sniper in the attacks, and said six people had been charged. The reason for the discrepancy was not immediately clear. stanley cup We have been assured from the highest levels of stanley cup government in Indonesia they are committed to