“There are five people who have died: four female and one male,” the head of the traffic police of the department of PotosiSergio Valdivia.
He explained that the driver of the public transport bus, “trying to avoid a blockade, 12 kilometers from Uyuni, ran over several people” at nightfall on Monday.
Valdivia, who specified that there are no injuries, said that the event is being investigated and that the driver is in custody.
A group of locals maintained a cut in a sector of the neuralgic highway between Uyuni and the city of Potosí to demand that the government of the department of the same name dismiss a provincial delegate.
The neighbors expressed in advance their dissatisfaction with the work of the provincial authority, which was dismissed, the spokesman for the government, Aldo Effen, said in the last few hours.
The Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt flat in the world, is one of the main tourist attractions in Bolivia, as well as the colonial city of Potosí, which in colonial times stood out for the exploitation of gold and silver.
Source: Ambito
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