Police said two passenger buses collided on a highway on a highway in Southern Bolivia on Saturday, including at least 37, including two children, and some 30 people were injured.
Colonel Wilson Flores told AFP about the accident near Uyuni city in the Potosi department, “So far we have 37 deaths.”
This year, the country’s most serious accident ever occurred on a narrow two-way road in the early hours of Saturday.
One of the buses was moving towards the city of Oralo, which is the scene at the end of this week of the Oruro Carnival, which is one of the largest festivals in Latin America. It attracts thousands of people.
It is still not clear what is the reason for the accident, but Niti said that one of the buses had entered the opposite lane.
“Is a deadly accident, and has left us” “with already confirmed deadly people,” told the local media, for the municipality officer of Osmar Salvatiara, Uyuni.
The police was at the scene to clarify the conditions of the accident and said they would provide an official report.
Officials said one of the drivers, who survived the accident in critical condition, was a “breath of alcohol”, so a blood test was performed.
The winding hill roads of Bolivia are notorious.
According to government data, road accidents kill an average of 1.400 people every year in the country of about 12 million residents.
Some information in this report is Reuters.