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Four women have been killed in a crash on a mountain road near Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, which has left two men in hospital with serious injuries. | Four women have been killed in a crash on a mountain road near Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, which has left two men in hospital with serious injuries. |
The women, thought to be in their late teens or early 20s, were pronounced dead at the scene. | |
They were in a Vauxhall Corsa car which went off the B4560, close to the Brecon Beacons National Park, at around 2100 BST on Thursday. | |
It is not known if the night's icy conditions played a part in the crash. | |
The two men have been taken to Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny. Dyfed-Powys Police said the men's injuries were not life threatening. | The two men have been taken to Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny. Dyfed-Powys Police said the men's injuries were not life threatening. |
Police are appealing for witnesses to the crash which happened on the Llangynidr to Beaufort road just outside the village of Garnlydan. | |
No other vehicle was involved. The road is likely to remain closed until at least midday. | |
A spokesman for the South and East Wales Ambulance Trust said they were alerted at about 2110 BST. | |
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He said: "We were on the scene fairly quickly and when we got there, we discovered it was a one-vehicle road traffic collision. | |
"The two males were walking when we got there and they were taken to Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny." | |
The road goes through open sections of country as well as moorland and hills. The crash is said to have happened on a high section of the road at a location that has no safety barriers. | |
The same stretch of road was the scene of another alert in February this year when four people were winched to safety after their car plunged 40ft (12m) down an embankment. They were not seriously injured. | |
As police were dealing with fatal crash near Garnlydan, they were called to another about five miles away on the road between Crickhowell and Gilwern on Friday morning. | |
A 4x4 vehicle has just be recovered from the scene. The roads in the area were reported to be icy. |