A bus carrying foreign students has crashed and killed 13 people in northeastern Spain - and British students are feared to be among the injured.
At least 43 were hurt when the coach collided with a car and overturned on the AP-7 highway near Freginals around 6am local time.
The injured, aged between 22 and 29, were from Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Turkey, Ukraine and Barcelona, local media said.
The students were part of the European Union student exchange programme Erasmus.
Thirty people have been taken to hospital, with four believed to be seriously injured.
The coach, carrying 56 people including the driver, was returning from the renowned Fallas fireworks festival in Valencia when it crashed.
The driver is being held at a police station in the city of Tortosa, according to Jordi Jane, Catalonia's interior minister.
An investigation is looking into the cause of the crash, which happened around halfway between Valencia and Barcelona.
Mr Jane said the coach driver "hit the railing on the right and swerved to the left so violently that the bus veered on to the other side of the highway".
The bus then hit a car coming in the opposite direction, he said.
Road conditions were good at the time, the minister added.
He said most of the passengers were studying at two universities in Barcelona.
Emergency workers are still working to clear the wreckage on the AP7 highway, which runs along Spain's eastern coast.
Images from the scene showed the bus lying on its side and three hearses taking bodies away.
Catalonia's newly elected president, Carles Puigdemont, has declared two days of mourning.
He has cancelled a trip to Paris and was heading to the crash site.
The local Catalonian government had urged people who need further information to call +34 900400012.
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