At least nine dead tourists, including six foreigners, and more than twenty wounded is the balance of the bell of a rollover bus company Turismo Trans Omar, who was returning to La Paz from the Salar de Uyuni.
According to police reports, the accident early yesterday morning was recorded 35 kilometers from the town of Challapata in Oruro, in the Cruise sector.
The crashed bus "left Uyuni, Potosi and passed on his way to La Paz. He had about 35 passengers, mostly foreigners and Egyptians, Italians and Brazilians, "said Arturo Gutierrez, unity Transit Radio Erbol Oruro.
Of the three wounded in serious condition: a Chilean and two Germans. The San Juan de Dios hospital Challapata where 24 passengers were transported, reported, without saying that some of the injured were discharged and gravity were taken to hospitals in the city of Oruro.
Three Germans, three Brazilians, three Chilean, five Italians, one Hindu, plus at least nine Bolivians are those that were recorded in the hospital Challapata.
The driver who was killed in the accident, according to the initial police inquiry, could not control the vehicle apparently speeding, ran off the road and overturned.
The deputy commander of the police department of Oruro, Colonel Freddy Castillo, said this made five male persons, including the driver of a motor, and four women were killed, but said that number could vary.
The deceased, according to the police report, are: Ivan Rodriguez Erlan Machicado 30 (conductor); Kur Stad 25 years of Australian citizenship; Linggi Silvia Rivero (23) from Switzerland; Cembran Franco (53) Italian; Beatriz Pozo-Kit Wong (25) Peru; and Steve Rogge (30) Swiss. The Italian Lorenzo Lizardi died in the afternoon at the hospital.
Two bodies, two women, were not identified.
It is known that representatives of the Italian embassy were present to complete the formalities for repatriation.
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