The fall of a truck into an abyss of 200 meters left 16 people killed, including children, on a remote rural road in the central jungle of Peru, the Police reported this Sunday.
“We have registered 16 people killed and one injured after the fall of a truck into an abyss of 200 meters,” a spokesperson for the Mazamari Police Station in the Junín region (about 300 km to the east of the Peruvian capital). The wounded man who was transferred to the Pangoa hospital, said.
The accident, which is under investigation by the authorities, occurred on 30 July when the truck, which was transporting farmers, rolled into the abyss after overturning spectacularly on the highway that connects Mazamari with Puero Ocopa, in Junín, according to the police source. The truck was heading to the town of Cubaro, where farmers go “to work on their farms,” he explained.
Police and fire brigades recovered the bodies of the deceased, including children, women and older adults, in addition to the driver.
Accidents on Peruvian highways are frequent due to excessive speed, poor road conditions, the routes, the lack of signaling and the scarce control of the authorities. On 20 February, the fall of a bus into an abyss in Tayabamba left 20 deaths and thirty people injured.