Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-13 07:31:09|Editor: ZD

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LIMA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed in Peru on Sunday after a bus fell into a ravine in the western region of Ancash, police said.

The accident occurred in the Sihuas-Quiches highway, in an area known as Arenapampa, when the bus plummeted into a 100-meter deep ravine. The causes are still being investigated.

Rescue teams, aided by local inhabitants, were able to transport the injured to hospitals nearby. </s> LIMA – At least seven people died and more than 50 sustained injuries on Saturday when a bus fell into a ravine in the central Peruvian region of Huanuco, according to Peru’s National Emergency Operations Center.

Rescue teams formed of police and firefighters arrived at the site of the accident and helped evacuate those injured to hospitals around Huanuco.

The bus was estimated to be carrying more than 60 people including the driver and co-driver.

It left the city of Pucallpa, in the eastern region of Ucayali, and destined for Tingo Maria, around 155 miles west.

Police said that for unknown reasons, the coach plunged into a ravine 150 meters deep while traveling along the Federico Basadre highway.

More than 100 people have been killed in three major bus accidents in the South American country. </s> At least 30 people died after a bus plunged off the Pan-American Highway in Peru on Wednesday, BBC reported.

The incident took place at 1.30 am local time (12 noon Indian time) near the Ocaño bridge in Arequipa province.

The coach fell from a height that reports estimated differently between 80 metres and 200 metres. It was taking passengers from the town of Chala to the city of Arequipa.

Local civil defence official Jacqueline Choque said “17 or 18 people” were rescued and taken to a hospital. The cause of the accident is not known yet.

This comes just over a month after 48 people died when a bus collided with a truck on a highway north of the Peruvian capital city of Lima and fell off a cliff. </s> A Peruvian passenger bus plunged into a river bed on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 30, rescue services said.

The bus was transporting about 50 passengers from Lima to Tarapoto, a 20-hour drive north, when it careened into the Huallaga, in a forested region less than halfway into the journey, according to local media.

"Until this moment 10 deaths are reported," the National Emergency Operations Center said on Twitter.

Nearly 2,700 people died in traffic accidents in Peru in 2016, according to official figures.

In February last year, a double-decker bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in the country's south, killing at least 44 people.

One month earlier, a bus crashed into a ravine in Peru's central coastal area, leaving 52 dead. </s> At least 44 people died in Peru on Wednesday when a bus hurtled some 100 metres into a ravine in the mountainous south in the country’s second major bus crash this year, a local official said.

“According to a report from the Peruvian National Police, there are 44 confirmed deaths as of now,” Yamila Osorio, the governor of the Arequipa region, wrote on Twitter.

The bus was carrying some 45 passengers, according to operator Rey Latino, but police said the figure was likely higher because additional passengers boarded along the route and did not appear in the initial register.

The crash occurred on a curve on the Panamericana Sur highway in the Ocona district. Road accidents are common in Peru, where roads are considered unsafe and bus drivers lack training.

“My condolences to the relatives of the victims of the transit accident in Arequipa,” President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski wrote on Twitter. “We have taken all steps to provide immediate rescue support and transfer victims to the closest health centres so they can be attended immediately.”

At least 48 people died in early January when a bus collided with a truck and careened off a cliff near the area of Pasamayo on the Pacific coast. </s> LIMA, Peru — At least 48 people were killed Tuesday when a bus tumbled down a cliff onto a rocky beach along a narrow stretch of highway known as the “Devil’s Curve,” Peruvian police and fire officials said.

The bus was carrying 57 passengers to Lima, Peru’s capital, when it was struck by a tractor-trailer shortly before noon and plunged down the slope, said Claudia Espinoza, who is with Peru’s voluntary firefighter brigade.

The bus landed upside-down on a strip of shoreline next to the Pacific, the bodies of its passengers strewn among the rocks.

“It’s very sad for us as a country to suffer an accident of this magnitude,” President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said in a statement.

Rescuers had to struggle to help survivors and recover the dead from the hard-to-reach area in Pasamayo, about 43 miles north of Lima. </s> At least 12 people were killed and another 27 were injured Tuesday when a bus plunged down a ravine in southern Ecuador, emergency management officials said.

Sources told EFE that the accident occurred around 4:25 am on the Balsas-Machala highway, and that the interprovincial bus covered the route between Yantzaza and Guayaquil. </s> Ten people have been killed and 30 have sustained injuries after a bus fell into a river near the district in the Province on Friday (local time).

Quoting the and the of Peru, reported that the bus had 50 passengers on board when the mishap occurred.

Rescue efforts are underway and the injured people have been rushed to nearby hospitals.

The bus belonged to the 'Sol Peru' company and was on a journey from to when it overturned and fell into the river. </s> At least 13 people died when the bus they were traveling on was pushed by a landslide into a deep abyss off a highway in southwestern Colombia, authorities announced. Rescuers only managed to reach it the next day.

About 5,000 cubic meters (176,000 cubic feet) of rocks and mud unexpectedly slid off mountainous terrain in the Nariño region of the country, taking with it a small bus.

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The incident on Saturday happened on the Nariz del Diablo (Devil’s Nose) portion of the highway that crosses a mountainous area between the towns of Junín and Túquerres.

Rescue teams did not manage to reach the crash site until Sunday, when they discovered that all of the passengers traveling on the 16-seat bus affiliated with the Supertaxis company died as a result of suffocation.

“I deeply regret the death of at least 13 people who were traveling in a public service vehicle on the Tumaco-Pasto highway, which were surprised by an avalanche of land,” the director of the National Road Safety Agency, Alejandro Maya, tweeted. Fatalities include seven men, five women, and a newborn child.

Forensic units have collected the bodies and have taken the corpses to a nearby morgue for identification. The search and rescue efforts were suspended because of the steepness of the terrain and deteriorating weather conditions. Work will resume in the area on Monday to check if more vehicles could have been trapped as a result of the landslide, the Office of Disaster Risk Management of Nariño said in a statement. According to the agency, the landslide was caused by the heavy rains in the region.
At least 15 people die after a bus falls into a ravine in the western region of Ancash, in Peru.