A Frenchman, a German woman and two Argentine women were among the dead, along with three Cubans, Venceremos newspaper said.
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It named the dead as 67-year-old Patrick Demer Tesseran, 59-year-old Annegret Frieda Gohike, as well as Roxana Lauseda Gomez and Nadis Carolina Flores, both 35.
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In addition to the dead, three Cubans and two foreigners -- 42-year-old Spaniard Felicita Hurtado and French woman Marline Alphonse, 63 -- were said to be in a serious condition.
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"Of the 40 passengers, 22 were foreigners from countries like Holland, England, France, Mexico and Canada," said Venceremos.
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The coach overturned while driving on the road linking the city of Baracoa, near Cuba's eastern tip, to the capital Havana.
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The driver said he lost control of the coach due to a wet road, claiming to have been driving slowly, the newspaper reported.
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However, it said witnesses said the driver had been attempting to overtake another vehicle when he found himself face to face with oncoming traffic, causing him to swerve off the road.
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According to official statistics, there were 11,187 road accidents in 2017 that left 750 people dead and 7,999 injured from a population of 11.1 million.
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