At least 20 killed in Peru crash
Baku, October 15 (AZERTAC). At least 20 people died in a fiery crash when a passenger bus ran into the back of a loaded fuel truck in central Peru, the state-run news agency said.
About another 10 passengers escaped through the bus windows, another source reported.
"It happened very fast," the state-run Andina news agency quoted an unnamed survivor as saying. "I was sleeping and felt the strong impact and saw that a fire was starting. I found a window and jumped out."
The collision happened around 11:20 p.m. Monday on the Pan-American Sur highway in the Canete province near Lima, Peru`s capital. Both vehicles were southbound from Lima to Pisco, the news agency said.
The truck driver survived the crash but was severely burned.
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