{"id":5630,"date":"2024-07-21T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2024-07-21T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:04:38","slug":"at-least-22-dead-in-bolivias-worst-road-accident-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-22-dead-in-bolivias-worst-road-accident-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 22 dead in Bolivia&#8217;s worst road accident this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A head-on collision between a truck and a bus on a highway in the Bolivian Andes on Saturday left 22 people dead and 16 injured in the country&#8217;s worst road accident this year, police said.<br \/>\nFourteen of the dead have been identified so far, police said, with Chile&#8217;s foreign ministry saying at least one of its nationals was among them.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, officials said the drivers of both vehicles were among the dead.<br \/>\nThe accident happened on a road between the Bolivian town of Patacamaya and the town of Tambo Quemado in northern Chile, Torrico told the Unitel channel.<\/p>\n<p>The bus had been heading toward Chile on the busy commercial and tourism route linking the two South American countries.<\/p>\n<p>The initial investigation showed that the truck had crossed into the opposite lane while trying to overtake a vehicle, traffic officer Nilo Torrico said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This truck made a prohibited maneuver and as a result we have this unfortunate accident,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nImages of the accident shared by Unitel showed the bus with its front section shattered, and the smashed truck. Some bodies were seen on the road.<\/p>\n<p>First responders were working to remove bodies trapped in the destroyed vehicles, Torrico said.<br \/>\nBolivia sees about 1,400 traffic deaths each year, government statistics show. Accidents are mainly due to poor driving and mechanical failures.<\/p>\n<p>A collision on a busy road in southwestern Bolivia on April 4 killed 14 people and left two injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A head-on collision between a truck and a bus on a highway in the Bolivian Andes on Saturday left 22 people dead and 16 injured in the country&#8217;s worst road accident this year, police said. Fourteen of the dead have been identified so far, police said, with Chile&#8217;s foreign ministry saying at least one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}