At least 11 people are dead and a child was injured when a bus fell into a ravine in Puno, in Peru‘s Andes, on the border with Bolivia, police said Monday.
11 dead, injured child
“Eleven people are dead and a child was injured after a minibus fell into a ravine,” a police officer in Sandia, in Puno prefecture, some 1,200 kilometers southeast of the capital Lima, told AFP.
The accident happened on the night of Sunday to Monday, while the vehicle with at least 12 passengers was traveling from Chouliaka to Sandia.
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Among the victims are three teachers and the driver, according to the police.
Frequent traffic accidents in Peru
Fatal traffic accidents are frequent in Peru, mainly due to excessive speeding, the poor condition of the road network, as well as the lack of signaling and controls.
In 2023, 3,316 people died in some 87,172 traffic accidents, according to official data from the Ministry of Transport.
However, the efforts made by the authorities have allowed the mortality rate due to traffic accidents to decrease from 14 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in 2019 to 9.5/100,000 in 2023.
By comparison, this figure stood at 4.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in the European Union in 2022.
APE-MPE-AFP, ertnews.gr
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