More than 20 killed in Bolivia’s worst road accident this year
Al Jazeera
Initial investigation shows that the truck had crossed into the opposite lane while trying to overtake another vehicle.
A head-on collision between a truck and a bus on a highway in the Bolivian Andes has killed 22 people and injured 16 in the country’s worst road accident this year, according to police.
Fourteen of the dead have been identified so far, police said on Sunday, with Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying there was at least one Chilean national among them.
Earlier, officials said the drivers of both vehicles were among the dead.
The accident happened on a road between Bolivia‘s town of Patacamaya and the town of Tambo Quemado in northern Chile, according to Unitel channel.
The bus had been heading towards Chile on the busy commercial and tourism route linking the two South American countries.
