A source from the Baixo Alentejo Sub-Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command disclosed that the bodies of six deceased victims were transported to the forensic services at Beja hospital.
The Beja Territorial Command of the GNR reported that five victims from the vehicle that caught fire and were charred have not yet been identified.
The other vehicle’s occupant, also a fatality in the accident, was a 26-year-old man, according to the same GNR source.
The head-on collision between the two passenger vehicles occurred at kilometer 387.500 on the IP2, near the town of Castro Verde in Beja district. Authorities were alerted at 2:06 AM today.
The accident led to the closure of the IP2 road, with traffic resuming only in the early morning at 7:10 AM, as indicated by civil protection and GNR sources.
Following the collision, “one of the vehicles, which was carrying five people, caught fire,” spreading flames to the roadside and surrounding vegetation, but was “quickly extinguished by firefighters,” explained the sub-regional command.
Emergency teams dispatched to the scene included 36 personnel supported by 16 vehicles, involving firefighters, GNR, the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) — with an emergency and resuscitation medical vehicle and an immediate life support ambulance — and Planície Roads Company, the road concessionaire.
