At least 17 killed in Bolivia bus crash,three footballers killed in Argentina

At least 17 people were killed on Friday when a passenger bus crashed along a rural highway in southwest Bolivia.
Another 22 people were injured in the accident aboard a bus traveling between Cochabamba and Potosi, police in the town of Potosi said.
The bus, carrying 50 passengers, hit a hill allegedly for speeding. The impact left the passengers in the lower part of the bus tight.
Police commander Col. Vladimir Lazo said the injured were taken to the Bracamonte de Potosí hospital, while rescue workers retrieved bodies at the scene.
“We are carrying out an investigation to determine the causes of the accident, whether it was recklessness or mechanical failure,” said Lazo.
A preliminary police report said a speeding bus crashed into a boulder on the highway near Potosi.
According to the police report, the deceased are six women and 11 men, including the driver of the fleet and his relief.
Three players from Colo-Colo’s official soccer school have died following a bus crash in Argentina, the Chilean club confirmed on Friday.
They were travelling to Paraguay for a youth tournament in the early hours. The bus that the team and their delegation were travelling in was involved in a traffic collision in the Mendoza region of western Argentina, with the vehicle coming off the road.
Colo-Colo confirmed the incident on their official Twitter account and offered their condolences to the families of those involved.
“We deeply regret the tragic death of three children, members of a sports delegation of the Colo-Colo Lo Boza football school in the commune of Quilicura,” they wrote.
“We send a fraternal hug and our condolences to their families, friends and all the members of that school.
“We inform that at this moment an official delegation is on the way to the place of events, headed by [club officials] Raul Ormeno, Luis Chupete Hormazabal and Ricardo Lobos, to see the situation in situ and to plan the help of Colo-Colo to the affected families.”
Colo-Colo and Chile star Jorge Valdivia also expressed his sympathies.
Writing on Twitter, he said: “I want to send my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the boys at the school of Colo-Colo Lo Boza who died in this tragic accident. It hurts in my soul the loss of these three who were Colocolinos [Colo-Colo fans] at heart.”
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