Four killed after bus plunges off 240ft bridge into Spanish river on Christmas Eve: Tragedy as families die on coach trip to see loved ones in prison

• Bus was carrying people visiting their loved ones jailed in Monterroso, Galacia 
• Emergency services said two corpses were removed from the bus 
• Two others – including the bus driver – were rescued and taken to hospital
• Two more bodies – one woman and one man – were found earlier today   

Four people have died after a bus plunged off a 240 foot bridge into a river in northwestern Spain’s Galicia region last night, officials have said. 

The bus was carrying people visiting their loved ones jailed in Monterroso in central Galacia, said La Voz de Galacia, a regional newspaper. 

Emergency services said two corpses were removed from the bus while two others -including the bus driver – were rescued and taken to hospital. 

Spain’s Civil Guard later said two more bodies were found earlier today. The woman’s body was recovered but the man’s body was yet to be retrieved. 

Emergency services who attended the scene in Galacia’s region said two corpses were removed from the bus while two others -including the bus driver – were rescued and taken to hospital

Spain’s Civil Guard later said two more bodies were found today. The woman’s body was recovered but the man’s body is yet to be retrieved

On Twitter, the emergency services said: ‘There could have been more people inside the bus’ and posted a photo of the vehicle in turbulent waters. 

Meanwhile, rescue operations had to be suspended overnight due to bad weather but resumed this morning.  

The horrific accident took place ‘at a spot with a steep gradient’, making access difficult, according to a Civil Guard spokesman in the city of Pontevedra, some 30 kilometres from the site of the tragedy.  

The Civil Guard said the bus driver had tested negative for alcohol. 

On Twitter, the emergency services said: ‘There could have been more people inside the bus’ and posted a photo of the vehicle in turbulent waters

Emergency services retrieved bodies from the crushed bus but said there may be more bodies missing

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