At least 19 people, including two children, were killed in southern Bolivia when a moving bus crashed and overturned in the mountainous department of Potosi, police said.
The bus was traveling from the capital La Paz to the town of Villazon on the border with Argentina, Colonel Wilson Flores said. “Unfortunately, we have 19 dead: 14 women, three men and two children,” he said.
Nine other people were injured, including the driver, who was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving.
Bolivia's winding mountain roads are notoriously dangerous. Road accidents kill an average of 1,400 people each year, according to government figures in the country of 12 million.
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