Due to a collision between two cars at an intersection on Main Route 2 (IP2), in the parish of São Matias, in the municipality of Beja, five deaths and two serious injuries this Friday evening, November 22.
According to CNN, citing an INEM source, the two seriously injured are a 25-year-old woman and a 14-month-old child.
For the Lusa agency, the Baixo Alentejo Sub-Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command indicated that the accident was alerted at 6:10 pm and, almost two hours later, at 8 pm, the IP2 remained closed in both directions .
A GNR source tells the Lusa agency that the dead are four men aged 20, 34 and 43, and another whose age has not yet been determined. There is also a female victim whose age has yet to be determined.
54 firefighters from Beja, Vidigueira and Cuba, from INEM and GNR, were sent to the scene, supported by 22 vehicles, including the emergency medical and resuscitation vehicle (VMER) from Beja and an Immediate Life Support ambulance (SIV) from Moura , and an INEM helicopter, which was never used.
News update at 7:50 am: ages of crash victims added