Xinhua News Agency, Quito, February 22 (Reporter Hao Yunfu) The Transportation Commission of Ecuador said on the 22nd that a long-distance bus and truck collision in Guayas Province, southwestern Ecuador, killed at least 8 people and injured 30 others.
The Ecuadorian Transport Commission posted on social media that an inter-provincial coach with passengers was driving on a mountain road in the province of Guayas in the early morning of the 22nd, colliding with a heavy truck from neighboring Peru, causing at least 8 One person died and 30 were injured. The information did not state the nationality of the casualties.
According to an Ecuadorian emergency department official, the driver of the long-distance bus died in the accident, the collision vehicle was severely damaged, and the injured person has been sent to a nearby hospital for treatment. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
Ecuador enters a four-day national holiday starting on the 22nd. Ecuador's transportation department has previously said that this will put great pressure on the national highway network.