FREE COPY CYCLING THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN La Vuelta Official market leader gets going on Audited by PGD/OJD the Costa August 24th to 30th 2018 www.surinenglish.com Look out for the peloton as it winds its way News 2 Health & Beauty 50 around the province of Comment 24 Sport 56 Malaga over the next Lifestyle 26 My Home 61 What To Do 43 Classified 63 few days P60 in English Food & Drink 48 Pastimes 70 RAIL COLLISION LEAVES FOUR INJURED Briton wanted after man dies A train on the Seville-Malaga line hit a truck on a level crossing on Tuesday in Fuente de Piedra P2 following punch in Fuengirola The assailant of a 65-year- old Argentinian man has been identified as a visitor who returned to the UK Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 45-year-old British man in connection with the incident ear- lier in August in which the victim was punched. He fell and hit his head and spent several days in a coma. P3 Tourism chief in Marbella. The Secretary-General of the UNWTO talks about the industry during a private visit to the Costa P6 Zurab Pololikashvili. :: J-L Bremain in Spain The state of the truck after the accident that occurred on Tuesday afternoon. :: SALVADOR SALAS chairman Sue Wilson leads legal challenge against Theresa May over Brexit P22 Killings show up surge in The Crown comes to film in Torremolinos. The hit series will turn the local drug-gang rivalry on the Costa conference centre into a 1960s airport P28 Two violent deaths Two quiet residential districts of rica gets tougher due to police action. Mijas and Estepona woke up to find In the first attack near Mijas took place within they were at the centre of violent Pueblo, two men of Swedish nation- killings in the last week. Police sus- ality were caught later trying to 48 hours in Mijas pect that they are linked to score- travel to Morocco after holding two setting among drug gangs, forced men and killing one. In the attack and Estepona to fight for territory and supplies as in El Campanario, one man was shot landing drugs on the coast from Af- in cold blood on his doorstep. P4 22222222 August 24th to 30th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH A train from Seville to Malaga hits a lorry on an uncontrolled level crossing near Antequera of straw from an agricultural area of olive groves and fields. There are no houses in that area, but the road is quite busy because people work on IGNACIO LILLO farms and fields there, explained the mayor of Fuente de Piedra, Francis- [email protected] co Hidalgo, who went to the scene of the accident. For reasons which are One of the occupants of now being investigated, the train hit the lorry was seriously the cab of the lorry, which was com- pletely destroyed. injured but is out of “There was a big crash, a lot of danger, and his noise and then the drivers came passenger and two running out,” said one passenger who had been in the front carria- women who were on the ge of the train. “The lorry was com- train were also hurt pletely split in two.” The passengers had to remain on board the train until 6pm, wai- MALAGA. Residents of Fuente de ting for a bus to take them to their Piedra are calling for uncontrolled le- destination because the track ahead vel crossings to be eradicated after a was completely blocked by the re- train travelling between Seville and mains of the vehicle and is in an Malaga hit a lorry on a crossing of that area difficult to reach by road. “The type between the town and Bobadi- Renfe staff behaved very correc- lla on Tuesday, and injured four peop- tly, they came to see how we le. The train pushed the lorry for about were,” said the passenger. 75 metres before being able to stop. The Renfe railway company says The company which owns the lo- the train left Seville for Malaga at rry is based in Fuente de Piedra, and The train just after the accident, with the remains of the lorry still crushed into the front. :: SALVADOR SALAS 1.04pm. Other services were not one of the occupants of the vehicle, affected as alternative tracks are who was seriously injured and was available in the area. taken by emergency helicopter to the The mayor of Fuente de The emergency services were Clínico hospital in Malaga, lives the- quickly on the scene, including the re. His condition is still serious but Piedra and people who Guardia Civil, Local Police, ambu- he is said to be out of danger. have to use this route want lances and the fire brigade from The other occupant of the lorry better safety measures Antequera. Several specialists from and two passengers on the train, the Adif and Renfe railway com- one of them a pregnant woman, panies were also there. were also injured and needed me- The train apparently After inspecting the damaged dical attention at the scene. train, experts said it must have The train is the medium-distance started to brake and been travelling at about 100 kilo- type which runs on the old track bet- sound its horn for at least metres per hour and started to ween Seville and Malaga, covering one kilometre before sound its horn and brake at least the journey in two and a half hours, hitting the lorry one kilometre before hitting the not the AVE high speed service. It was lorry. Adif has started an investi- carrying 90 passengers at the time of gation and will provide the Guar- the accident. dia Civil and judicial authorities The lorry was on the crossing, with its conclusions. which has no barriers (contrary to a The mayor of Fuente de Piedra statement by Adif at the time) and and several local residents who had was returning from collecting bales The cab of the lorry after the crash. :: SALVADOR SALAS gone to the scene complained August 24th to 30th 2018 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Hunt on for British man who allegedly fatally punched a man in Fuengirola then returned to UK about the lack of visibility for drivers of lorries and tractors at Mario Sauco died after portedly British man explained that that point, and called on Adif to ten days in a coma and Mario had “touched” a 16-year-old remove all the level crossings girl - who the witness took to mean in the municipality or, at least, his family are seeking the assailant’s daughter- in a bar, fit them with barriers. “They answers as to what and that he had followed him to have to create alternative ways happened before the punch him. for traffic so they don’t have to On hearing this explanation, one use level crossings. They should attack in Los Boliches bystander supposedly said “run!, be eliminated completely,” in- run!” ahead of the imminent arri- sisted Francisco Hidalgo. :: JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS val of the police. With regard to the occupants MALAGA. Police in Fuengirola have of the lorry, the most seriously called for help from their UK coun- Incident in a bar with a girl hurt was a 44-year-old man who terparts in the hunt for a 45-year- Investigators found the bar and was rushed to hospital in Mala- old British national who is wanted have questioned those who were ga with a complicated injury to in connection with the death of a there. One further version of events his right arm and a craneo-fa- local resident. is that Mario, who allegedly had cial wound which will need re- Mario Sauco, 65, was fatally in- been drinking that night, had construction surgery, according jured on Saturday, 4 August, after moved his hand over the shoulder to the 112 emergency service. being punched in the head by a sur- of the teenager niece of the bar’s The other three people who prise attacker while on a pedestrian owner, who then asked him to were injured were taken to An- crossing on Calle Víctor de la Serna leave. Reports say that the British tequera hospital. One was the in Los Boliches. He was just 100 me- man wanted by police is a friend of other occupant of the lorry, a tres from arriving home. The victim the bar owner’s brother and took 21-year-old man who suffered was originally from Argentina but Image of the supposed attacker at the scene. :: SUR it upon himself to follow Mario. several injuries but remained had lived for almost 20 years in Spain. Mario’s family only found out conscious. According to witnesses and fam- eyewitnesses and a photo from one tional warrant for the man’s arrest. the next morning that he was in a The other two were on the ily members, the man who hit Mario of their mobile phones to continue The family of Mario Sauco con- coma in hospital in Malaga. “My train: a 35-year-old woman who at close to midnight had been fol- their investigations. tinue looking for explanations as to father was a kind man, with a good is seven months pregnant, who lowing him. Once punched he fell After visits to local shops, bars the shock attack. One witness said heart, that gave us life and loved was suffering from pains in the to the floor and the assailant tried and restaurants, they succeeded in that the alleged attacker stayed at his four grandchildren.