No less than 20 folks died and 15 others had been injured Saturday when a bus overturned on the Pan-American Freeway in southwestern Colombia, police mentioned.
The bus was touring between the port metropolis of Tumaco, within the southwestern nook of Colombia, and Cali, 200 miles (320 kilometers) to the northeast when the incident occurred.
“Sadly, now we have a toll of 20 folks lifeless,” mentioned Captain Albertland Agudelo of the Narino division visitors police.
Among the many injured had been a three-year-old woman and an eight-year-old boy.
Investigators are attainable “mechanical failures within the brake system,” Colonel Oscar Lamprea, director of visitors and transportation within the space, mentioned in a message to reporters.
A preliminary report mentioned the motive force misplaced management after popping out of a curve in a foggy space.
It took rescue staff from the police and hearth departments 9 hours to set the car upright, evacuate the injured and get better the lifeless.
Pictures obtained by AFP confirmed the bus, its roof caved in, perched dangerously on the fringe of a steep drop-off.