42 dead in Argentina police bus accident
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A BUS carrying Argentine border patrol officers crashed into a ravine in the northern province of Salta yesterday, killing 42 people, while nine were being treated for injuries, provincial emergency official Francisco Marinaro told local television.
“We have 42 dead so far,” he said in a TV interview at the scene, where an overturned bus was shown, swarmed with emergency workers.
Nine people were rescued and being treated in local clinics. “The bus fell about 18 meters,” Marinaro said.
A local mayor had originally said 20 people were killed in the accident, but the death toll rose as emergency workers recovered bodies from inside the mangled wreckage of the bus.
The vehicle was part of a three-bus convoy carrying officers of Argentina’s gendarmerie, which patrols the country’s borders.
Salta borders Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay.
Passengers on the other two buses were the first people on site to attempt to save the officers trapped in the wreckage, officials said.
Border security has become a hot issue in Argentina as the country has emerged as part of a route used for smuggling Andean cocaine to Europe and for human traffickers sending Syrian refugees to the Western Hemisphere.
President Mauricio Macri, elected last month on a platform that included improving Argentina’s rural roads, sent his condolences to families of the crash victims. “We need to improve our highways so these things don’t keep happening,” he said.
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