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Five injured
FIVE people were injured on Sunday, January 29, after a landslide occurred on the A 395. The incident happened in the Granada municipality of Guejar Sierra. As reported by both 112 Emergencies Andalucia and the Guarda Civil, the road was closed in both directions at Km16.
Members of the public alerted the emergency services shortly before midday to the landslide on the road leading to the Sierra Nevada ski resort. They said a number of vehicles had been damaged and there were people in need of medical assistance.
112 deployed patrols from the Guardia Civil along with ambulances and the Fire Brigade. A Civil Protection unit was also dispatched to the location as well as National and Local Police patrols.
It was confirmed by medical staff that five people needed treatment. They were transferred to the San Cecilio Hospital in Granada. Those injured included a fourmonthold baby, a twoyearold boy, two women aged 36 and 60, and a 65 year old man. Four vehicles were damaged by the rock fall. Heavy machinery was used to clear the road.
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) told a local news source on Saturday, January 28 that he had passed away.
A Professor of Aesthetics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and one of the founders of the Col·legi de Filosofia, de Ventós was also a member of PSC in Congress, between 1982 and 1986, and in the European Parliament, between 1986 and 1994.
De Ventós was also a professor at the University of Barcelona (UB) and a visiting professor at several North American universities, including as Harvard, Brown, Berkeley, Cincinnati and New York.
After writing ‘Theory of Sensibility’ he went on to receive numerous other distinctions. In all de Ventós wrote more than 30 books and was well known for his work on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics and politics.
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