The accident occurred Friday morning, on a road linking the regional capital Santa Cruz and the small rural town of Saipina, according to the first elements of the investigation.
Eleven people were killed and 23 injured when a bus fell off a cliff on Friday in eastern Bolivia, police said.
The accident, whose causes were not immediately known, would have occurred early in the morning on a road linking the regional capital Santa Cruz and the small rural town of Saipina, according to the first elements of the investigation.
“We have eleven dead and 23 injured” in this “traffic accident”, local police chief Oscar Medrano told the private television channel Unitel.
1,325 road deaths in 2021
Some of the injured were taken to hospital in Saipina, while others, in more serious condition, were taken to hospitals in Santa Cruz.
According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), traffic accidents in Bolivia caused 1,325 deaths and 11,155 injuries in 2021.
