{"id":14891,"date":"2025-07-26T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2025-07-26T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:02:07","slug":"at-least-18-killed-in-peru-mountain-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14891","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 killed in Peru mountain bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least 18 people were killed and 27 injured when a bus travelling from Lima to Peru\u2019s Amazon region overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The bus, which landed on its roof next to a river, was carrying more than 60 people from the capital Lima to the jungle city of La Merced when it veered off a winding, narrow road, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far we&#8217;ve recorded 18 fatalities from the accident,&#8221; a spokesperson for health services of the central city of Tarma, 240 kilometres (149 miles) east of Lima, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>A bus carrying 66 passengers overturned in the Andes mountains in Peru, killing at least 18 people and injuring 24 others, according to regional health authorities pic.twitter.com\/A8ickhIlDi<br \/>\n\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) July 26, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports put the death toll at 15, with 30 injured, but three victims died after being taken to a hospital.\u00a0Two children were among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency teams were at the scene of the incident. The cause of the crash has not been identified yet.<\/p>\n<p>Road accidents are a common occurrence in the South American country, due to a combination of speeding and poor road conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Police recorded a total of 3,173 traffic-related deaths last year.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people were killed and 27 injured when a bus travelling from Lima to Peru\u2019s Amazon region overturned on a highway in the Andes Mountains, authorities said Friday. The bus, which landed on its roof next to a river, was carrying more than 60 people from the capital Lima to the jungle city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}