Two bus crashes kill 20 in Peru
29/1/2007 15:12
At least 20 people were killed and a dozen injured yesterday in two bus
crashes in northern Peru, the Peru National Police said.
The first accident
occurred on a road linking the Palta and Sullan towns, 1,020 km north of capital
Lima in Piura province, when a bus hit a car, killing 10 and injuring
four.
In another accident, 10 people were killed and six injured on the
Juanjai-Lima road in the Amazon province of San Martin, 1,000 km north of Lima,
when an inter-city bus from the Huamanaga bus company overturned on a
curve.
The high rate of road accidents in inner Peru is blamed on the poor
state of the roads, obsolete auto fleets and poor driver
training.
Xinhua
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