Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-13 07:31:09|Editor: ZD

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LIMA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed in Peru on Sunday after a bus fell into a ravine in the western region of Ancash, police said.

The accident occurred in the Sihuas-Quiches highway, in an area known as Arenapampa, when the bus plummeted into a 100-meter deep ravine. The causes are still being investigated.

Rescue teams, aided by local inhabitants, were able to transport the injured to hospitals nearby. </s> LIMA – At least seven people died and more than 50 sustained injuries on Saturday when a bus fell into a ravine in the central Peruvian region of Huanuco, according to Peru’s National Emergency Operations Center.

Rescue teams formed of police and firefighters arrived at the site of the accident and helped evacuate those injured to hospitals around Huanuco.

The bus was estimated to be carrying more than 60 people including the driver and co-driver.

It left the city of Pucallpa, in the eastern region of Ucayali, and destined for Tingo Maria, around 155 miles west.

Police said that for unknown reasons, the coach plunged into a ravine 150 meters deep while traveling along the Federico Basadre highway.

More than 100 people have been killed in three major bus accidents in the South American country. </s> At least 30 people died after a bus plunged off the Pan-American Highway in Peru on Wednesday, BBC reported.

The incident took place at 1.30 am local time (12 noon Indian time) near the Ocaño bridge in Arequipa province.

The coach fell from a height that reports estimated differently between 80 metres and 200 metres. It was taking passengers from the town of Chala to the city of Arequipa.

Local civil defence official Jacqueline Choque said “17 or 18 people” were rescued and taken to a hospital. The cause of the accident is not known yet.

This comes just over a month after 48 people died when a bus collided with a truck on a highway north of the Peruvian capital city of Lima and fell off a cliff. </s> A Peruvian passenger bus plunged into a river bed on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 30, rescue services said.

The bus was transporting about 50 passengers from Lima to Tarapoto, a 20-hour drive north, when it careened into the Huallaga, in a forested region less than halfway into the journey, according to local media.

"Until this moment 10 deaths are reported," the National Emergency Operations Center said on Twitter.

Nearly 2,700 people died in traffic accidents in Peru in 2016, according to official figures.

In February last year, a double-decker bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in the country's south, killing at least 44 people.

One month earlier, a bus crashed into a ravine in Peru's central coastal area, leaving 52 dead.
At least 15 people die after a bus falls into a ravine in the western region of Ancash, in Peru.