At least 25 people died Monday in Bolivia When a passenger bus broke down and shot for a slope of about 500 meters after impacting with a van in Potosí, in the south of the country, the Prosecutor’s Office reported.
It is the second accident with a high number of victims in three days. On Saturday, 37 occupants of two buses died that also collided in front of Potosí, During the Carnival parties.
The new incident occurred on the Oruro-Potosí road, In the town of Las Leñas, about 90 kilometers north of the city of Potosí. The frontal clash of the vehicles left “as balance 25 people killed and 26 wounds,” said the Public Ministry in a statement.
The authorities presume that the driver of the truck, which is admitted to a nearby health center, He was responsible for the incident after invading the opposite lane.
“He is in the hospital (…) with a police custodian because he has already been apprehended by the Prosecutor’s Office,” Limberth Choque, police spokesman, a police spokesman.
All the deceased were occupants of the bus that broke outhe added.
According to police reports, the passenger vehicle had left from Oruro, where the Oruro Carnival was held on the weekend, one of the largest parties in Latin America, which receives tens of thousands of people every year.