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Home » At least 37 people killed and 39 wounded as two buses collide in Bolivia | News
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At least 37 people killed and 39 wounded as two buses collide in Bolivia | News

i2wtcBy i2wtcMarch 1, 2025No Comments2 Mins Read
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The crash happened on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane.

At least 37 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crash involving two buses in the western Potosi region of Bolivia, police and local authorities have said.

The accident happened on Saturday at 7am local time (11:00 GMT) on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane.

Uyuni is the gateway to the Salar de Uyuni, a major tourist attraction and the world’s largest salt flat at more than 10,000sq km (3,900sq miles).

“As a result of this fatal accident we have 39 people injured in four hospitals in the town of Uyuni, and 37 people have lost their lives,” a spokesperson for the Departmental Police Command of Potosi told reporters.

Police personnel are working to identify people who were killed and those who were injured and hospitalised, the spokesperson added.

Handout picture released by Bolivian Police shows people checking the wreckage of a bus that collided with another one on a highway near Uyuni, Bolivia on March 1, 2025. Two passenger buses collided in the early hours of March 1, 2025, on a highway in southern Bolivia, leaving at least 37 dead, including two children, and some 30 people injured, police said. (Photo by Handout / Bolivian Police / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / BOLIVIAN POLICE / HANDOUT / " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
People inspect the wreckage of a bus involved in the collision [Bolivian Police/AFP]

One of the buses was heading to Oruro, where one of the most important carnival celebrations in Latin America is currently taking place.

Police officers removed survivors from the steel wreckage, according to images shot by Radio Uyuni, which showed several bodies covered in blankets strewn across the high Andean flatlands.

A police spokesperson said one of the two drivers, who both survived the crash, was spotted by passengers consuming alcohol.

Bolivia’s mountainous, under-maintained and little-supervised roadways are some of the deadliest in the world, killing an average of 1,400 people every year.



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