A firefighter works within a bus that fell from a bridge, on the website online of the deadly bus crash at the outskirts of Guatemala Town, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025.
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GUATEMALA CITY — No less than 55 persons are useless after their bus plunged right into a gorge and landed underneath a bridge Monday at the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital. Investigators from the general public ministry mentioned that there have been 53 our bodies recovered on the scene and the San Juan de Dios Health center showed that two passengers introduced there had additionally died. Firefighting spokesperson Edwin Villagran mentioned a multi-vehicle crash despatched the bus off the street and into the steep gorge underneath the bridge sooner than crack of dawn. Others had been critically injured. The bus fell 115 toes right into a sewage-polluted movement. It landed the wrong way up and half-submerged.
The bus had come from Progreso, northeast of the capital. Volunteer firefighting spokesman Óscar Sánchez mentioned youngsters had been a number of the sufferers. President Bernardo Arévalo presented his condolences and declared an afternoon of nationwide mourning.
