Two buses collided head-on along a highway in Bolivia’s eastern state of Santa Cruz early on Thursday, killing 16 passengers and injuring more than 40 others just a day after another road accident killed 25 people, said the Bolivian police.
The accident was the fourth of the kind in the past six days in Bolivia. Altogether 67 people were killed and 120 others injured in the four road accidents, according to the police sources.
The police sources said the two buses crashed into each other when one of them swerved into the opposite lane of the road, colliding with the other at half past midnight local time (0430 GMT) in the community of Taperas, 50 kilometers from San Jose de Chiquitos, in Bolivia’s Amazonian region.
Police Regional Commander Rene Calla said the injured were taken to a local hospital in San Jose.
Friday 25 January 2013
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