A traffic accident in Guatemala killed more than 30 people. Many others were injured, the local authorities said. Among the injured are also women and children, reported the newspaper "Prensa Libre".
The people gathered on Wednesday at the site of a previous accident in which a person from their neighborhood was killed, said the fire department in the village Nahualá in the west of the country. Then a truck had raced into the crash site.
He was saddened by the tragedy that took place in Nahualá in the Sololá district, wrote Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales on Twitter. He announced support for the families of the victims.
The accident occurred on kilometer 158 of the Panamericana, a highway that connects the south and north of the American double continent over thousands of miles.