The Ariège prefecture confirms that a farmer died and that her husband and daughter were seriously injured at a road block
A farmer was killed, her husband and her teenage daughter were seriously injured. They were overthrown on Tuesday at dawn at a farmers’ roadblock in Ariège, Agence France-Presse learned from reliable sources.
The three occupants of the car which crashed into the roadblock were arrested and taken into custody, according to a police source.
In a press release, the Ariège prefecture reported a “deceased person” and of “two seriously injured” In “a serious traffic accident” occurred at 5:45 a.m. at the height of the RD 119 bridge » has Pamiers “at the scene of the agricultural event”.
“The Ariège firefighters immediately went to the scene, joined by the Ariège emergency medical aid service, which engaged a mobile emergency and resuscitation structure,” added the prefecture, letting it be known that “the prefect went to the scene of the accident with the sub-prefect”, wheras’“a departmental operational center is activated” and that’“a psychological support unit has been set up”.
According to a police source, a “car crashed into the dam for an unknown reason”. A woman “about thirty years old” died, while the injured, “severely” affected, are a “man in his forties” and an ” minor “according to the same source, which specifies that the “three victims were on the dam”.
“I have just learned that a road accident happened in Ariège in Pamiers and that three of our members suffered a serious accident” close to a blocking point, the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, had declared shortly before on RMC.