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At least 23 people were killed and 13 injured in Peru on July 16 after a bus crashed while traveling through a mountainous area, the country’s interior ministry said on social media.
The bus skidded off a highway in Peru’s Andean Ayacucho region at dusk, overturning and plummeting down a slope of about 200m, Mr Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, head of the highway protection division, told state news agency Andina.
Mr Valderrama said the accident occurred on the Los Libertadores highway in Ayacucho in the south-central Andes and that rescue work was ongoing.
Peru’s ground transportation superintendent SUTRAN said in a statement the bus belongs to local company Turismo Molina Union SAC and that it has initiated an investigation.
Company representatives were not immediately available for comment.
Deadly bus accidents are common in Peru, where many buses travel on precarious mountain roads or are driven by inadequately trained drivers.
At least 25 people died in April, when a bus fell into a river in Peru’s northern Cajamarca region, while in September 2023 at least 24 people died in a similar accident in the Anco region.
AFP