At least 20 die in Guatemala bus crash


Reuters | Published: December 22, 2019 10:41:17 | Updated: December 23, 2019 11:22:34


People are pictured on the scene of a collision between a passenger bus and a trailer truck early on Saturday in Gualan, near Guatemala's Atlantic coast, Guatemala on December 21, 2019 — Reuters photo

A collision between a passenger bus and a trailer truck in eastern Guatemala early on Saturday killed at least 20 people, including a seven-year-old boy, doctors and firefighters said.

Guatemalan President-elect Alejandro Giammattei expressed his “profound lament” for the deaths in a post on Twitter.

The accident took place near the town of Gualan, near Guatemala’s Atlantic coast, as the Pullman passenger bus was traveling to the city of Santa Elena, near the border with Mexico.

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.

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