At least 24 dead when a bus fell off a cliff in Peru

At least 24 people died this Saturday in the Peruvian region of Piura, north of Lima, when a bus with 60 passengers on board He fell off a cliff at dawn, for as yet unknown reasons.

The Peruvian National Police (PNP) told local media that the incident occurred in an area difficult to maneuverat kilometer 121 of the Panamericana Norte, known as “Devil’s Curve” and that they are waiting for the prosecutor’s office to identify the deceased and injured, the news agency indicated. AFP extension.

The PNP investigates the cause of the accident and assumes that the driver lost control of the vehicle on a steep incline from the dark of the night.

The deceased were transferred to the Talara morgue pending identification.

The vehicle of the transport company Q’orianka Tours Águila Dorada, left Lima and was heading to Tumbes, on the border with Ecuador, but left the road in a desert areain the stretch that joins the region of El Alto with the city of Órganos, in the province of Talara, when he had to travel 260 kilometers before reaching his destination.

Upon learning of the incident, personnel from the police and the fire brigade arrived at the scene to support the rescue efforts and transport the injured to various clinics in the province of Talara.

The accident was confirmed by the Land Transport Superintendence (SUTRAN), which clarified in a statement that the vehicle had all the documents in order and authorized to serve.

“SUTRAN has activated all the intervention protocols, coordinating in an articulated way with the competent authorities in order to collect information related to the accident,” the agency said.

An unknown number of people were injured and taken to hospitals in El Alto and Máncora, popular summer resorts in Peru, on the road to Piura, some 1,000km north of Lima.

Several passengers got off shot through the windows and others were trapped inside the vehicle.

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In Peru, a “devil’s curve” is known for the roads they have very tight earringswhere you have to drive carefully to avoid any accident.

And it’s not the first time that a similar incident has occurred under these circumstances. In January 2018, 48 people died when a passenger bus falls into an abyss of approx 100 meters after being hit by a truck on a highway on the country’s central coast.

The accident occurred on the Pan-American Highway, about 45 kilometers from Lima, in the area known as the “Devil’s Curve”, which climb a cliff over the Pacific Ocean.

The bus, which left for Lima with 55 passengers and two crew members from the city of Huacho, 130km north of the capital, was overturned meters from the sea after falling off the road.

At nightfall, the lifeguards had to suspend their duties of recovering the bodies from the remains of the partially submerged bus. from the waves with the rising tideabout eight hours after the accident.

With information from AFP and Télam

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