Peru: At least 18 dead, 24 injured in bus crash
(Photo via: local authorities)
OAN Staff Abril Elfi
12:27 PM – Saturday, July 26, 2025
At least 18 people have died and 24 others have been injured after a bus traveling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains.
On Friday, Junin’s health director Clifor Curipaco stated that a double-decker bus belonging to the company “Expreso Molina Líder Internacional” went off the road and fell down a slope.
Aldo Tineo, a health official from the central city of Tarma, said that authorities are in the process of identifying the bodies.
AdvertisementLocal television broadcasted videos of the crash site, showing the bus split in two.
A bus carrying 66 passengers overturned in the Andes mountains in Peru, killing at least 18 people and injuring 24 others, according to regional health authorities pic.twitter.com/A8ickhIlDi
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