Spain : Thirteen people were killed and 44 injured Sunday when a bus carrying foreign exchange students crashed in northeastern Spain, local authorities said.
All the dead were female, according to a regional government source who requested anonymity.
The students were on a European exchange programme in Catalonia and were from 16 different countries including Britain, Ukraine, Switzerland, Sweden but also Japan and New Zealand, said regional government official Jordi Jane.
The casualties' nationalities was not immediately known, said Jane, revising down an earlier death toll of 14.
The accident occurred just before 6:00 am (0500 GMT) near the small town of Freginals, about 150 kilometres (95 miles) south of Barcelona as the bus was returning from a hugely popular traditional festival in the eastern city of Valencia.
The driver "hit the railing on the right and swerved to the left so violently that the bus veered onto the other side of the highway," Jane said.
The bus then hit a car coming in the opposite direction, injuring two people inside, he added.
An AFP photographer at the scene said many fire trucks were on site, as were three hearses and a heavy-lift crane.
The car's front was smashed in, and the bus was lying on its side after the accident.
