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11 dead after minibus crashes into ravine in Peru
A minibus fell into a ravine on Monday in the Peruvian Andes, on the border with Bolivia, killing at least eleven people.
Published today at 1:32 a.m.
Road accidents are frequent in Peru due to excessive speed, the poor state of the roads and the lack of signage and controls. (Pretext image)
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At least 11 people died and a child was injured when a minibus fell into a ravine in Puno, in the Peruvian Andes, on the border with Bolivia, police said Monday.
“Eleven people died and a child was injured after a minibus fell into a ravine,” a police official from Sandia, in the Puno department, 1,200 km to the southeast, told AFP. from Lima.
The accident occurred on the night of Sunday to Monday, while the vehicle carrying more than 12 passengers was traveling from the town of Juliaca to Sandia. The victims included three teachers and the driver, according to police.
3,316 deaths in 2023
Road accidents are frequent in Peru due to excessive speed, the poor state of the roads and the lack of signage and controls. In 2023, 3,316 people died in more than 87,172 accidents, according to the Ministry of Transport.
The efforts of the authorities have nevertheless made it possible to reduce the mortality rate linked to traffic accidents from 14 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2019, to 9.5 per 100,000 in 2023. It was 4.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2022 in the European Union.
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