Madrid experienced an early morning of horror when a man hit the crowd with his truck when leaving a wedding in a restaurant: four people died and four others were seriously injured.
The celebration of the wedding, with about 200 guests, took place in the city of Madrid by Torrejon de Ardozduring which a fight broke out which ended with the transfer of a dozen guests.
In the middle of the wedding party between two Roma families, several people arrived who had not been invited, but they had discrepancies with some of the participants. After breaking into the place, the restaurant The ranchsparked an argument, according to the first police investigation.
During the fight, a car with four occupants – a father accompanied by his two children and a grandson – hit part of those present. It is not known what caused the controversy.
In addition to the deceased – a 66-year-old woman and three men aged 68, 37 and 17, all Spaniards – there are four seriously injured, two moderate and two minor, police sources said.
At first the car escaped, but was intercepted shortly after by agents from a neighboring country. It is a 35-year-old father and his two sons, 15 and 16.
The car, which was circulating without bumpers and with obvious damage, was abandoned by its occupants, three of whom were arrestedwhile the fourth managed to escape.
According to the local newspaper El País, members of the Red Cross Summa112, a municipal ambulance and civil protection personnel went to the site of the event and assisted the victims.
The seriously injured are “a 31-year-old woman with severe head trauma, intubated and transferred to the Torrejón hospital; a 50-year-old man with an open leg fracture and admitted to the Coslada hospital; another 43- a one-year-old man with severe head trauma and leg fracture, who was transferred to the Gregorio Marañón hospital, and a 30-year-old woman, with a pelvic fracture, who was admitted to La Princesa hospital “, explained the Madrid average.
Inside the car were some remains of the victimssources close to the investigation report to the Efe news agency, specifying that 5,000 euros were also found, apparently intended for the couple as a wedding gift.
“The city security unit of the Toledo command and the patrol of the Seseña post locate the vehicle and three people are arrested and a fourth manages to escape from the place, despite being identified. The detainees and the vehicle involved will be handed over to the homicide group of the Madrid National Police, which will instruct the proceedings for these events, “the Civil Guard said in a statement.
With information from agencies.
Source: Clarin
