The authorities favor the hypothesis of a braking failure to explain the drama. Visibility was also reduced due to fog.
Le Monde with AFP
At least twenty people were killed and fifteen injured in a coach accident on Saturday in southwest Colombia, police said. Among the injured are a 3 -year -old girl and an 8 -year -old boy. The accident occurred on the Pan -American highway, the police captain responsible for the traffic in the department of Nariño.
told the press.
The coach circulating between the port of Tumaco and the city of Cali, overturned on the road early Saturday due to a “mechanical failure”, added this source. According to Colonel Oscar Lamprea, in charge of traffic and transport within the national police, “the hypothesis is a breakdown at the braking system”.
According to the preliminary conclusions, the driver lost control of the coach at the exit of a turn, while the visibility was reduced due to the fog. Rescuers intervened for more than nine hours to clear the injured in different hospitals in the region.