The miracle Erwin Tumiri: he survived the Chapecoense tragedy and is now saved from an accident in which 21 people died

At least 21 dead and 12 injured left an accident on a road in Cochabamba on Tuesday, in the center of Bolivia, when a passenger bus fell off a cliff, police said. Some testimonies point against the driver, while others point out that the road was wet with drizzle.

What’s amazing about the news is that Erwin Tumiri, one of the survivors of the 2019 Chapeocense tragedy, was traveling on this bus. The man who worked as a technician for the LaMia company once again performed a miracle by emerging. practically unscathed from this accident.

The incident occurred around 1 a.m. on a highway that connects the departments of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, when the vehicle fell off a cliff 150 meters deep. Police are investigating the causes of the accident, the most serious in 2021, and do not rule out an increase in the death toll.

Lucía Tumiri, sister of the passenger who once again suffered death, spoke to Los Tiempos newspaper and explained: “He is stable, thank God, once again he has been saved ”, He said. According to the report, the man your knees hurt and your back has scratches and will remain the night under observation. “I talked to him and he told me everything was fine. It is with the power of the Lord, he always takes care of us and in his time ”, added Lucía.

The head of the traffic police office, Colonel Helsner Torrico Valdez, added that the injured had been transferred to hospitals in the region and to the town of Cochabamba, 400 km east of La Paz. “I lost my aunt, my aunt was like a mother to me,” a woman told reporters amid tears at the hospital in Cochabamba city. He said a cousin survived and is injured. He pointed out that he had spoken by phone with his cousin, who told him that “The driver was fed up [mucho] and the passengers shouted “please slow down”, they got scared, but the driver kept running and they felt the blow. “

“We have lost my brother and he leaves two orphaned children,” said a man from the same hospital. The woman and children were injured. The passenger bus left Cochabamba in persistent drizzle, reducing visibility on the road, local media reported.

The last serious road incident occurred in Bolivia last September, when a bus fell from a cliff, killing 19 and injuring 17.

I spoke in 2019 with Infobae and remembered the tragedy of Chapecoense, of which he and flight attendant Ximena Suárez were the only two crew members to exit the aircraft alive. In addition, Brazilian journalist Rafael Henzel, who later died, and footballers Hélio Neto, Jackson Follmann and Alan Ruschel, survived.

Surprisingly at that time he also had no serious injuries and he only stayed a few days in the hospital: “I only had a cut on my arm and chin, but because of the beatings everything was purple. But then I got better, I’m fine, ”he said in the interview with Infobae.

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With information from AFP