14 killed in Spain bus tragedy

A bus carrying a group on a religious excursion has crashed in southern Spain, killing 14 people and injuring another 38.

A regional church authority in Murcia said one of two buses bringing back 55 members of a religious group from a day trip in Madrid to the town of Bullas ran off the road late yesterday and tumbled down a 15-metre dirt embankment. The crash occurred near the town of Cieza.