Death toll from Bolivian road crash climbs to 14

The death toll from a highway crash in rural Bolivia has climbed to 14, the director of national transit for the police department, Fernando Blanco, said on Wednesday.

The incident, which occurred late Tuesday afternoon and involved a passenger bus that turned over, also left some 32 people injured, Blanco told reporters at a press conference in La Paz.

The bus, belonging to a company called Pilcomayo, was traveling between the departments of Tarija and Cochabamba, when it lost control going around a curve and turned over.

"Preliminary investigations established human error, probably due to speeding," caused the crash, the state Bolivian News Agency (ABI) said, citing Blanco.

The bus driver is among those hospitalized.

The fatal victims include seven men and seven women.

source: Xinhua