AT LEAST 34 people have been left injured in Barcelona after two buses collided in a horror crash.
British tourists are believed to be among those wounded in the accident with four people currently in a critical condition.
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One of the buses, said to be carrying tourists, smashed into the back of the other and made it crash into a tree, local media reports.
The accident happened early this afternoon in the Avinguida Diagonal – one of the Catalan capital’s broadest and most important avenues, near to the famous Sagrada Familia monument.
Pictures from the scene show dozens of emergency responders surrounding the two buses.
Around 20 ambulances are said to have been mobilised and rushed to the scene and rescue those trapped on the vehicles.
The street where the buses made contact was temporarily closed off as emergency teams dealt with the crash.
A spokesman for a regional government-run emergency response coordination centre said: “Some 34 people have needed medical attention following an accident between two buses on Avinguida Diagonal.
“Four of them are in a critical condition.”
Three were instantly rushed to hospital at separate hospitals in Barcelona.
The fourth person was unable to escape one of the heavily damaged buses and needed to be cut out by specialist rescue teams, the spokesman added.
Another spokesperson for Autocares Julia, who operated one of the coaches involved in the crash, confirmed a number of British tourists were on board at the time.
He said: “The nationalities most represented on the coach were British, German and Italians.
“They were on a cruise liner which had arrived in Barcelona earlier today and was due to leave in the next few hours.
“ I don’t know whether there are any British tourists among the most seriously hurt. It is too early to say at this stage.”
The other coach had come from Lloret de Mar and was full of Italian holidaymakers.
Barcelona deputy mayor Albert Batlle was due to head to the scene this afternoon.
Last year, terrifying images showed how a bus was left resting upright against the entrance of a tunnel after flipping over in a crash.
Three people were badly injured and the driver was left trapped after the smash in Spain, according to local reports.
The bus flipped over at about 8.45am on the C-32 highway in Barcelona between Pineda de Mar and Tordera.
As many as 46 passengers were injured with two of them initially trapped inside.
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