Tragedy in Peru: Truck fell off a cliff – 16 dead, including children

Sixteen peoplebetween them children, lost their lives in the Peru when the truck in which they were riding fell down a 200 meter cliff. The tragic accident it happened on Saturday on a road between Masamari and Puerto Ocopa, in an isolated area in Hunin District (central), in the jungle.

“The report we have isi 16 dead and one injured after the car fell down a 200-meter cliff,” a police spokesman in Massamari told AFP.

The van was mostly occupied farmers who were going “to work on their farms”, according to the same img. between the corpses that were recovered by firefighters and police officers include those e.ggoats, women, the elderly and the driver.

Only one of the passengers survived and, as APE-MPE reports, he is being treated for injuries in Hunin.

The authorities announced that they are conducting an investigation into the accident.

Traffic stops are frequent in Peru, with the main reasons being the development of excessive speed, the bad condition of the road network, the lack of markings and checks by the authorities. In February, a bus crashed into a cliff in Tayababa, in the north of the country, killing twenty people and injuring thirty others.


Source: News Beast

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