2023-11-30 04:05:10
At least 10 people died and 15 were injured in a traffic accident occurred this Wednesday on a highway in the municipality of Bajos de Haina, about twenty kilometers from Santo Domingo, the director of the Dominican Civil Defense, Juan Salas, informed EFE. Salas assured that the body of a woman was recovered from the rubble, hours after the official himself reported that the fatalities rose to nine after the death of two people admitted to health centers.
The accident occurred in the morning on a section of the Sánchez highway, belonging to the Quita Sueño sector, in Bajos de Haina, when A passenger bus and an articulated truck collided head-on and then plunged into a ravine, with the truck falling on top of the bus..
Sources from the 911 emergency service told EFE that these are preliminary figures, since an undetermined number of travelers would have been trapped on the bus. According to data provided by people present at the scene, at least thirty passengers were traveling on the damaged bus.
Civil Defense teams, firefighters, the National Police and the General Directorate of Traffic and Land Transportation Security, among other services, continue to work in the area.
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