20 dead and 40 Injured in road accident:Peru

by Amitjha | February 10, 2009 at 10:07 pm

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In a tragic incident of head-on collision of fully loaded bus with lorry, 20 people died and 40 are severely injured.The accident occurred on the road connecting the cities of Arequipa and Juliaca.

This is second such accident in last two days.

A traffic accident involving a truck and two buses left at least 20 people dead and 40 people injured on the road linking the southern
cities of Arequipa and Juliaca, a police spokesman said.

The huge early morning pile-up was the region's second large-scale crash in 24 hours, after 12 people were killed and 39 injured on Monday when a bus overturned in the southern Andean state of Ayacucho.

Last year 875 people were victims of road accidents in Peru, and some 5,307 people were injured. The toll was a 10 percent reduction from 2007, according to police.

Most incidents involved public transportation, with buses traveling on narrow roads in remote regions of the Peruvian Andes.