23 die in mountain bus crash
Two buses crashed head-on on a mountain road near Lake Titicaca in Peru, killing at least 23 people and injuring 50 more, police said.
Yesterday’s crash occurred in the Santa Lucia district, about an hour’s drive from Lake Titicaca high in the Andes.
Emergency crews said there could be as many as four more people still trapped in the wreckage and 14 of the dead were identified, all of them Peruvians.
The buses belonged to the Julsa and Destinos transport companies, which operate daily interstate buses in the remote southeastern part of Peru.
Deadly bus crashes are common in Peru, where domestic routes are loosely regulated and roads are poorly maintained.
