FOUR Spanish tourists have been killed in a road accident in India after the minibus they were travelling in was hit by an oncoming lorry.
Seven of the group of 13 Spaniards were injured and four died when the HGV, which was on the wrong side of the road and travelling 'at great speed' according to The Hindustan Times
According to provincial MPs in Málaga, the deceased are Josefa Morán Molinillo, Vicente Pérez Moreno and María Nieves López Navarro from Ronda (Málaga province) and Francisco Pedrosa Gijón, from Granada.
The group had been leaving the headquarters of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation in the State of Andhra Pradesh, and the crash ocurred near Bangalore in the south of the country.
According to police in the Chittoor district, the injured parties were taken to hospital and are 'out of danger', although a spokeswoman from the Vicente Ferrer Foundation says two of them are 'seriously wounded'.
The trip had been organised by Ronda's Baba Centre, which offers activities such as yoga and meditation and also carries out charity work in India, including working closely with the Foundation.
The group had been on the same trip several times before, since the Centre visits the Foundation headquarters every year.
They had been visiting different areas of the Spanish Foundation's work in and around the Anantapur area over the previous four days, and were now on their way to the neighbouring State of Tamil Nadu.
Vicente Ferrer's widow and the chair of the Foundation in his name, Anna Ferrer, says the charity is 'really distraught' by the incident.
Anna and Vicente set up the charity in India in 1969.
