six dead, including two civil guards, at a police roadblock hit by a truck

Six people, including two civil guards, were killed on Tuesday March 19 at dawn near Seville, in the south of Spain, when a truck hit a police roadblock, announced the regional government of Andalusia. The president of the region, Juanma Moreno, discusses on A “tragic road accident”. Three other civil guards were injured and hospitalized after this tragedy, which occurred around 4:30 a.m. on a stretch of highway near the town of Los Palacios.

According to Spanish media, the civil guards were carrying out a routine road check as part of the fight against drug trafficking when the truck hit them. The driver, who was taken into custody, tested negative for drugs and alcohol, they said.

This accident occurs a month after the death of two other civil guards, whose boat was hit, apparently deliberately, by a drug trafficker’s speedboat during a chase in the port of Barbate, also in Andalusia. The Bay of Cádiz is the regular scene of drug seizures by Spanish customs agents and the Civil Guard.