2024-03-19 17:02:13
The president of the Andalusia region speaks of a “tragic road accident”.
Published on 03/19/2024 6:02 p.m.
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According to Spanish media, the civil guards were carrying out a routine road check as part of the fight once morest drug trafficking when the truck hit them. (JC MILHET / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
Six people, including two gendarmes, were killed on Tuesday March 19 at dawn near Seville, in the south of Spain, when a truck hit a police roadblock, announced the regional government of Andalusia. The president of the region, Juanma Moreno, discusses on and “tragic road accident”. Three other civil guards (the name of the Spanish gendarmes) were injured and hospitalized following this tragedy, which occurred around 4:30 a.m. on a section of highway near the town of Los Palacios.
According to Spanish media, the civil guards were carrying out a routine road check as part of the fight once morest drug trafficking when the truck hit them. The driver, who was taken into custody, tested negative for drugs and alcohol, they said.
This accident occurs a month following the death of two other civil guards, whose boat was hit, apparently deliberately, by a drug trafficker’s speedboat during a chase in the port of Barbate, also in Andalusia. The Bay of Cádiz is the regular scene of drug seizures by Spanish customs agents and the Civil Guard.
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