Victims from the Thames Valley region.
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The survivors of the Ecador bus crash that killed 19-year-old Maidenhead woman Indira Swann are recovering from the physical and emotional scars of the accident.
Miss Swann, a former pupil of Henley College in Oxfordshire, was one of five Britons killed as they travelled from the capital, Quito, to fishing village Puerto Lopez as part of a trip organised by gap year travel specialists VentureCo.
Ecuadorian police said a lorry carrying a load of sand crashed into the left side of the bus in Sancan. The lorry driver fled the scene. The other victims were named as Emily Sadler, 19, Rebecca Logie, 19, Elizabeth
Pincock, 19 - all students taking a year out between school and university - and Sarah Howard, 26, a freelance trip leader on her first expedition for Warwick-based VentureCo.
A further 12 Britons, one French national and two Ecuadorians, a driver and a tour guide, were also injured in the accident, suffering broken bones, concussions and cuts to the legs and faces. Those with less serious injuries are likely to begin making their way back to
the UK in the coming days.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it understood the local
authorities had appointed a prosecutor to investigate the tragedy.<
On her Facebook page Miss Swann had told of the rough bus journey she endured on a trip to the volcano of Cotopaxi. "I was sick on the bus - the rockiest bus I've ever been on, it drove through
a river!" she wrote.
The group were taking part in the 15-week "Inca and Amazon Venture",
which set out on March 27 and began with two weeks of Spanish language tuition in Quito. They were on their way to the poor fishing village of Puerto Lopez, where they were to build sanitation and other facilities for a creche.
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