Tragedy in Bolivia: At least 24 dead and 15 injured in road accident

At least 24 people died in the early hours of this Monday and 15 others were injured, many seriously shock of a bus and a truck in the west zone of Bolivia.

The director of Transit in the Bolivian department of Oruro, Colonel Victor Hugo Lizarazu, indicated that the causes of the accident were being investigated, although he stated that heavy rains could be "an important factor for this result".

The police command reported that several of the wounded had been transferred to hospitals in the city of Oruro, such as the general hospital, "some serious".

The Bolivian media like Radio Fides, who quotes a preliminary report from the police, reported that the crash between the pbadenger bus of the Trans Inca Company and a dump truck or a truck came to the 04:00 local time (08:00 GMT) on the road between the cities of Oruro and Potosí.

According to this media, the collision was frontal in a moment of low visibility because of the fog in the area between Poopó and Machacarca and in the bus, there were 44 people, 41 pbadengers and 3 drivers.

The pbadenger vehicle He left the city of Villazón, on the Argentine border, to go to La Paz..

The accident occurred on the same road where, almost a month ago, on January 19, at least 22 people were killed and 37 others were injured in the frontal collision of two buses.

This collision is presumed to be the result of the rail invasion of one of the vehicles as it was raining on this section, according to information provided by the Oruro Transit Unit.

According to official data, accidents on Bolivian roads have an average of 1,000 deaths per year and approximately 40,000 injuries.

(With EFE information)