Bus crash kills 21 people, injures more than a dozen in Bolivia

At least twenty-one people died and more than a dozen were injured when a passenger bus plunged some 150 meters (500 feet) after leaving the road between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.

Accidents on the country’s poorly maintained roads result in hundreds of deaths every year.

About 1,000 people die and 40,000 are injured in road accidents in Bolivia every year. (ILKHA)