La Paz: Bolivian authorities said Sunday a bus rolled over on a mountain road in the southern part of the Andean country, then tumbled 100 metres (330 feet) into a ravine, killing at least 13 people and injuring 26 more.
Local media said four of the dead were part of a soccer delegation from Argentina that was in Bolivia to participate in a festival in the Sucre region. Police said Sunday’s crash happened in Cieneguillas, a town in the Tarija region south of La Paz.
The accident came a day after a highway accident in another part of southern Bolivia in which two buses collided head-on, killing at least 22 people and injuring 37. So in two successive days of bus disasters, 35 people have lost their lives.
Deadly bus crashes are common in Bolivia’s highlands where narrow highways often wind next to steep precipices.
AP
