Members of the National Police, firefighters and security guards recovered 36 bodies of the passengers of the bus of the interprovincial transportation company Llamosas, which fell into a 200-meter ravine at kilometer 780 of the Panamericana Sur highway, in the district of Ocoña, province of Camaná, Arequipa region.
The painful work took them more than two hours. They used the front loader blade To cross part of the Ocoña River to the other end, they made two trips, the first with 20 corpses and the second with the rest.
The bus belongs to the company Llamosas He left last night from the town of Chala, in the province of Caravelí, bound for the city of Arequipa.
DRIVERS
The transport unit collided with a truck and fell into a ravine around midnight. The bus driver, Marco Ruelas, He died at the scene. The company remembers him as a good driver, with more than 25 years of experience.
“It is the first time that an accident of that magnitude has occurred in the company and it was not caused by us”they pointed out from the company.
Meanwhile, the PNP General Olger Benavides, head of the Arequipa Police Region, reported at a press conference that the driver of the truck, identified as Henry Bandi Rey Apaclla Ñaupari (35), He is detained with police custody at the Camaná hospital.
“The qualitative alcohol test gave a positive result, the test sample is arriving in Arequipa and the driver’s blood alcohol level will be known,” he pointed out.
BODIES RECOVERED – IMAGES
They used a front loader to remove bodies. Photo: GEC./Pedro Torres.
The bodies were taken to the morgue by truck. Photo: GEC/Pedro Torres.
Serenazgo van supporting the recovery of the bodies. Photo: GEC/Pedro Torres.
Panoramic view of the accident site. Photo: GEC/Pedro Torres.
With machinery they recovered the bodies. Photo: GEC/Pedro Torres.
The driver of the truck, Henry Bandi Rey Apaclla Ñaupari, is in the hospital with police guard. Photo: diffusion.
