{"id":495803,"date":"2025-12-27T17:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-fifteen-people-lose-their-lives-in-a-bus-accident-in-guatemala\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T21:04:53","slug":"at-least-fifteen-people-lose-their-lives-in-a-bus-accident-in-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-fifteen-people-lose-their-lives-in-a-bus-accident-in-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"At least fifteen people lose their lives in a bus accident in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Guatemala.-<\/strong> 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nAccording to the same source, there are 15 fatalities, including a minor, as well as 19 people injured.\n\nThe accident was recorded 175 kilometers west of Guatemala City, specifically at the height of the municipality of Nahual\u00e1 in the department (province) of Solol\u00e1.\n\nAccording 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.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GRAF562-GUATEMALA-ACCIDENTE.webp?resize=900%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad guatemaltecas proceden a retirar los cuerpos de las v\u00edctimas tras el accidente en el oeste de Guatemala.\" class=\"wp-image-2381566\" style=\"width:547px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-se-investigan-las-causas-del-accidente-de-autobus-en-guatemala\">The causes of the bus accident in Guatemala are being investigated<\/h2>\n\n\nLast February, another bus accident left 54 people dead in Guatemala City after losing its brakes and similarly falling into a ravine.\n\nThe Public Ministry (Prosecutor&#8217;s Office) is already at the scene to certify the causes of the accident, which took place on Friday night.\n\nOne of the victims&#8217; relatives told journalists at the scene that she found out about the accident through social media.\n\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t know how the accident happened. When we tried to contact him, he didn&#8217;t answer, and we started looking for information, and on social media there were videos that the truck had been wrecked,&#8221; said Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez Gramajo, sister of Bern\u00e1n Esa\u00fa L\u00f3pez, one of the deceased in the tragedy, who was traveling from Antigua Guatemala to the department of San Marcos.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24YP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}