At least fifteen people lose their lives in a bus accident in Guatemala

Guatemala.- At least fifteen people died on Friday night and nineteen others were injured during an accident involving a public transport bus in western Guatemala, according to rescue services who confirmed this Saturday. The Volunteer Firefighters of the Central American country detailed to local media at the scene of the accident that more than 18 ambulances were mobilized to attend to the tragedy. According to the same source, there are 15 fatalities, including a minor, as well as 19 people injured. The accident was recorded 175 kilometers west of Guatemala City, specifically at the height of the municipality of Nahualá in the department (province) of Sololá. According to local media, the bus, with almost fifty people on board, plunged into a ravine at least 50 meters deep under circumstances that the authorities are investigating.

The causes of the bus accident in Guatemala are being investigated

Last February, another bus accident left 54 people dead in Guatemala City after losing its brakes and similarly falling into a ravine. The Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) is already at the scene to certify the causes of the accident, which took place on Friday night. One of the victims’ relatives told journalists at the scene that she found out about the accident through social media. “We don’t know how the accident happened. When we tried to contact him, he didn’t answer, and we started looking for information, and on social media there were videos that the truck had been wrecked,” said María López Gramajo, sister of Bernán Esaú López, one of the deceased in the tragedy, who was traveling from Antigua Guatemala to the department of San Marcos.