Both victims are out of danger. The accident left a total of 20 victims of different nationalities.
Two Argentine tourists were injured this Monday when the bus went off the road in which they traveled to the ruins of Machu Picchuin southern Peru. They are a man and a woman. Both were transferred and admitted to a hospital in Cusco and are out of dangerThe accident left a total of 20 injured.
The bus involved in the accident was transporting tourists from the town from Aguas Calientes to the ruins of Machu Picchustate television reported TV Peru.
According to images released by the local press, The bus fell down a slope about 15 meters high. Staff of the company that owns the vehicle, neighbors and police They tried to stop it from continuing to descend.
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Witnesses reported that The driver was distracted due to the fog in the area where there was also a rockfall caused by heavy rains. The vehicle, owned by the company Consettur Machupicchu SACis responsible for covering the Hiram Bingham route, which goes from the town of Aguas Calientes to the Inca citadel, located on top of a mountain.
The EsSalud social health insurance company reported on the social network X that health professionals from the I-2 Machupicchu Medical Center, part of the Cusco Network, provided timely care to five people who suffered multiple injuries after the tourist bus accident.
“The patients were stabilized and discharged,” said Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Sandra Barcenareported on the same social network that among the injured is a group of Mexican tourists. There are four people who suffered fractures.
They were traveling in the vehicle 32 passengers of various nationalitiesamong them Chinese, Italians, Mexicans, Guatemalans, Argentines, Brazilians, Chileans and two Peruvian tour guides.
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