2023-07-23 04:29:50
– 9 dead and 31 injured in the accident of a bus
The accident took place in the northeast of Colombia where a bus fell into a ravine.
Posted today at 06:29
Bus accidents are common in South America. Here in Colombia in October 2022.
AFP
Nine people were killed and 31 others injured on Saturday in Colombia when a passenger bus, most of whom were Venezuelan migrants trying to reach the United States, fell into a ravine, authorities said.
Army Colonel Luis Jesús León told the press that “90% of the occupants of the bus are of Venezuelan nationality and were traveling to the north coast towards the city of Cartagena”. According to the police, six men and three women died. Two of them are minors. The accident occurred around 04:20 local time (09:20 GMT) near the municipality of Playon in the department of Santander (northeast), on the road to the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
A fall in a ravine of a hundred meters
Civil protection first indicated that the bus carrying more than 40 passengers was traveling on the road linking Cucuta to Bucaramanga, in the northeast of the country. The accident occurred when the bus left its trajectory and fell a hundred meters into a ravine. On the images released by the civil protection, we can see the vehicle in the middle of bushes and scattered clothes on the place of the accident.
Road accidents are one of the main causes of death in Colombia. Last Tuesday, eight people were killed when a bus collided head-on with a semi-trailer in the department of La Guajira (north).
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