General Juan Alberto Libreros, Director of Traffic and Transportation of the National Police, indicated that the number of fatalities due to the traffic accident that occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the Los Venados tunnel, at the top of La Línea, amounted to eight in the last hours, while there are another 33 people injured.
According to the officer, There are still 27 people under observation in health centers close to the scene, caused by the loss of brakes of a mule tract that involved 17 other vehicles and in which five members of the same family died.
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“A sinister road was presented where a tractor-trailer vehicle due to a brake system failure collides with 17 vehicles with an unfortunate balance of eight dead people and 33 injured people, who were transferred to assistance centers in both Ibagué and Armenia, “General Libreros told RCN Radio.
