Mr Modig, who has since returned home, said he was asleep at the time of the crash.

BBC: Cuba prosecutors seek seven years for Spain's Carromero

He and Swedish politician Jens Aron Modig survived but Mr Paya and fellow Cuban activist Harold Cepero died.

BBC: Cuba prosecutors seek seven years for Spain's Carromero

Two others were in the car, it said: Swedish citizen Aron Modig and Spaniard Angel Carromero, who suffered injuries from the impact.

CNN: Details of crash that killed Cuban dissident disputed

Two other men in the car, Spanish politician Angel Carromero and Swedish politician Aron Modig, survived and were released from the hospital on Monday.

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Carromero, a technical adviser to the city of Madrid, received a gash on his head but he and Modig had been released from the hospital in Bayamo, said Francisco de Borja Morate Martin, a counselor in the Spanish Embassy in Havana.

CNN: Details of crash that killed Cuban dissident disputed