A bus carrying 60 passengers fell over a cliff in northwest Peru on Saturday, killing at least 25, according to authorities.
According to authorities, the bus, which belonged to the Qorianka Tours firm, had left Lima and was traveling toward Tumbes, which is near the border with Ecuador, when it abruptly turned off the road close to the town of Organos.
Unknown numbers of injured passengers, according to the police, were sent to hospitals in the well-known vacation towns of El Alto and Mancora, located 620 miles (1,020 kilometers) north of Lima.
Others were trapped inside the bus when some people have flung off it.
On Peru’s roads, traffic accidents happen frequently. More than 2,600 fatalities in such instances were recorded by CBS News in 2016. On a treacherous stretch of road known as the “Devil’s Curve” on Tuesday, at least 30 people died, according to police and fire officials in Peru. The accident happened in 2018. Later, the government decided to stop allowing buses to use the highway.
Protests in Peru are demanding the overthrow of President Dina Boluarte and the reinstatement of her predecessor, whose ouster in December sparked violent rioting and plunged the country into political instability.
