At least eight people he died and nine others were injured this Monday when a car fell into the river bus-type passenger transport that goes to the province of La Paz. The accident happened at dawn near the town of Cairoma, in the district of Loayza in La Paz, the head of the Bolivian police, Edgar Cortez, told the press.
The vehicle was driven by a 30-year-old man and is owned by him a public transportation company that plies the route between the city of El Alto, neighboring La Paz, and CairomaCortez explained.
The police “removed eight bodies” and there are “nine people who were injured and could be treated” and sent to different hospitals “in the department of La Paz,” he said. The police chief said that the list of the dead and the injured is being prepared by the investigation staff of the incident, the cause of which is still unknown.
At the place where the accident happened There is no mobile phone signal, which made it difficult to call for help and rescue the injured and the dead.which continued until noon.
Accidents on Bolivian roads cause about 1,400 deaths and around 40,000 injuries every year, and mostly due to human failures that can be avoided, according to official data.
