The investigation into the Marchena parade accident points to a "mechanical failure" of the tractor

• Seville One dead and five injured in an accident in the parade of Kings of Marchena

The investigation promoted into the serious accident that occurred last Thursday night at the Three Kings parade in

, where the tractor of one of the floats plunged down a slope, running over several people, one of whom died , "points to a mechanical failure of the tractor", according to the sub-delegate of the central government,

.

Among the injured there are two minors, both are with a reserved prognosis at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville.

There are another four injured in the Osuna hospital and the rest were treated on site or have already been discharged.

In a statement on Canal Sur Radio collected by Europa Press, Carlos Toscano regretted this "unfortunate accident" and conveyed the condolences of the state authorities to the families of those affected and to the municipality of Marchena itself.

and Traffic Police of the

have been mobilized

, is still "in the preliminary phase", although he has stated that "everything points to a mechanical failure". of the damaged tractor.

To the point, he has specified that the tests carried out on the tractor driver do not show any "anomaly" and that the vehicles used to pull the floats are subjected to the corresponding technical inspections (ITV).

The tragedy occurred around 8:15 p.m. this past Thursday, as part of the Marchena Three Kings parade.

The unified emergency service

received different notices that one of the tractors that participated in the procession of the Three Wise Men had run over several people when it rushed down a hill and hit a wall in the Plaza de San Andrés .

Members of the Local Police, the Civil Guard, the Provincial Council Fire Department and the 061 Health Emergency Center, belonging to the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), intervened at the scene, recording a 71-year-old woman dead and five injured, including two serious, including a child under two years of age.

According to what witnesses of the incident have informed Europa Press, the event occurred when the last float, Baltasar's, was heading towards Las Torres street.

The wounded are some members of the Dulce Nombre band, which accompanied

"Everything was going well. The accident occurred on a downhill that is not very steep or long. We were on the curve and I saw that the tractor was going down very slightly. It seemed strange to me and, seeing that it was going more quickly, we moved away. The tractor, instead of turning towards the street it should have, turned to the opposite side and took everything that was ahead of it," they reported.

Likewise, these sources explained that several people helped to remove a woman from under the tractor, this person being the fatality of the event.

The driver of the tractor, an elderly person, was also evacuated to the hospital as a result of an anxiety attack.

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