Incident near northern city of Salta blamed on burst tyre,causing vehicle to fall 65ft into ravine
At least 43 police officers were killed when a bus in a convoy in northern Argentina blew a tyre and veered off the side of a bridge, falling at approximately 65ft in an accident that brought the destitute state of the South American nation’s roads into focus. The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, and a city approximately 900 miles north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers,a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, or a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com