BOGOTA, Colombia — A pile-up at a toll sales space on a busy freeway in central Colombia on Wednesday morning killed no less than two folks and injured 19, native authorities mentioned. Witnesses described a number of explosions whereas photos of the collision confirmed autos engulfed in flames.
The crash occurred when a milk truck misplaced management of its brakes and collided with six different autos and a motorbike that had been at a toll sales space on a street within the Cundinamarca area, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the capital, Bogota, Gov. Emilio Rey mentioned on X.
Rey mentioned the injured are being handled in close by hospitals, however didn’t present particulars on their situations.
Pictures broadcast by Colombian media confirmed folks crying whereas serving to or rescuing those that had been trapped, autos in flames and destroyed.
“I noticed when the truck went by way of the toll sales space, then there was an explosion, it overturned, and there have been sturdy explosions and autos burning,” Hollman Osma, a witness to the accident, advised native outlet Noticias Caracol. “There was completely nothing that may very well be accomplished.”
Not less than 11 ambulances, firefighters and law enforcement officials had been deployed to the world, Rey advised Noticias Caracol. The street stays closed.
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