Bus Crash Near Lake Titicaca Peru, At Least 23 Dead, 50 Injured

by Tina Kells | July 2, 2009 at 06:30 pm

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A horrific bush crash near Lake Titicaca in Peru has left at least 23 people dead and 50 injured. Two buses collided on a main road near the lake, the buses were not tourist vehicles but part of the interstate trasnport system in Peru. Reports from the region claim that as many as four people are still trapped in the wreckage.

The crash occurred in the Santa Lucia district, about an hour's drive from Lake Titicaca high in the Andes mountains, a Puno state highway police officer told The Associated Press by phone.

The officer requested anonymity because he was not authorised to talk about the crash.

Emergency crews said there could be as many as four more people still trapped in the wreckage, the officer said. Fourteen 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.