Ipiales
The dream of reaching Ecuador for a group of Venezuelan citizens ended after the bus in which they were traveling collided with the La Magdalena bridge, on the Pasto-Ipiales road, causing six deaths so far, including two. minors, and 16 wounded.
The driver would have lost his brakes 800 meters before crashing into a wall over the viaduct, according to Julio Olaya, commander of the Highway Police of the border department (province) of Nariño, opposite Carchi.
The first inquiries show that the inter-municipal service bus that was transporting 40 Venezuelan migrants from Maicao (Venezuela) overturned this Thursday, February 3, 2022, while passing over the Pan-American highway bridge, 35 km from the international crossing of Rumichaca.
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The officer stated that the damaged vehicle had up-to-date documents and would have changed drivers before arriving in Pasto.
According to the version that the driver gave to the authorities of the Traffic and Transportation Police, the bus would have had brake failures.
The driver hit the wall of one of the bridges, located on a curve to avoid falling into the void. “We were very close to going to the abyss,” said the motorcyclist.
The vehicle was transporting migrants of Venezuelan nationality from Pasto to the city of Ipiales, apparently intending to move to Tulcán to enter Ecuador. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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