Two buses collide in Bolivia, killing at least 37
The wreckage of a bus that collided with another one on a highway near Uyuni, Bolivia on March 1, 2025. (AFP/Bolivian Police)
By AFP .
Journalists @New Vision
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LA PAZ - Two passenger buses collided Saturday on a highway in southern Bolivia, leaving at least 37 dead, including two children, and some 30 people injured, police said.
"So far we have 37 confirmed deaths," Colonel Wilson Flores told AFP about the crash near the city of Uyuni in the department of Potosi.
The crash, the country's most serious so far this year, occurred on a narrow two-way road early Saturday.
One of the buses was heading to the city of Oruro, the scene this weekend of the Oruro Carnival, one of the largest festivals in Latin America that attracts tens of thousands of people.
The two passenger buses collided in the early hours of March 1, 2025, on a highway in southern Bolivia. (AFP/Bolivian Police)
It is still unclear what caused the accident, but police said that one of the buses had veered into the opposite lane.
Officials also said one of the drivers, who survived the accident in grave condition, had "alcohol breath," so a blood test was performed.
Bolivia's winding mountain roads are notoriously deadly.
Road accidents kill an average of 1,400 people every year in the country of about 12 million inhabitants, according to government data.