Several hundred mourners attended the funeral service held in Oviedo cathedral for the four Guardias Civil who were tragically killed last Wednesday when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed after hitting high tension electricity cables near the village of San Tirso de Abres.
The bodies were returned to the victims´ families yesterday and so the family of only of the victims attended yesterday´s service, that of 32 year old Angel Macías Alvarez, who was a sergeant from León. He was married with two children and one of the two pilots.
The other victims were the other pilot, Lt. Guillermos Antúñez (27), who was unmarried and from Sevilla, corporal Santiago Fuente Galloso (31), who was unmarried and from Barcelona, and private Diego Bareiro Chousa (29), also unmarried and from Lugo in Galicia. The corporal and the private both worked for the Environmental Protection Department.
