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LA PAZ, Bolivia — A truck traveling on a highway in southern Bolivia collided with a bus early Monday morning, forcing the bus off the road and killing at least 31 people, police said.
Speaking to reporters, police spokesman Limbert Choque confirmed the death toll, which he said included both men and women, as ambulances and emergency vehicles arrived at the scene of the accident. Another 22 people suffered injuries.
Police said the bus rolled some 1,640 feet down a ravine after the collision, which took place on the highway between Oruro, in the Bolivian Altiplano, and the highland mining city of Potosi.
The driver of the truck has been arrested, police added, while the cause of the accident is under investigation.
The crash comes just days after more than three dozen people were killed in the same region after two buses collided.
