Overview

• The Municipal Council of Mourão declared two days of municipal mourning after confirming the identities of the six victims.
• Investigators from the Portuguese National Republican Guard are examining how the head-on collision occurred and how the rented Nissan Juke caught fire.
• Authorities have named the victims as Domingos Serrano, 55; Maria João Serrano, 51; their twin sons Domingos and Afonso, both 20; a 19-year-old woman; and the other driver, 26-year-old Ruben Gonçalves.
• Thetford’s mayor, local leaders and community groups including youth football clubs have issued tributes to the family that lived in Norwich.
• Press reports that the Serrano family held British passports conflict with a UK Foreign Office statement that they are not believed to be British citizens.