Saudi Arabia has said 34 mainly Islamic nations have joined a new military alliance to fight terrorism.
A joint operations centre is to be established in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, state media reported.Countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world are involved in the alliance but Saudi Arabia's main regional rival Iran is not.
It comes amid international pressure for Gulf Arab states to do more in the fight against so-called Islamic State.
Saudi Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman said the new alliance would co-ordinate efforts against extremists in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan.
Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are not in the coalition.
'Support from others'
"This comes from the Islamic world's vigilance in fighting this disease [Islamic extremism] which has damaged the Islamic world," Prince Mohammed said."Currently, every Muslim country is fighting terrorism individually... so co-ordinating efforts is very important."
The coalition would not just focus on fighting IS, he added. Few other details have been given.
Prince Mohammed said: "These countries have procedures to go through before joining the coalition, but out of keenness to achieve this coalition as soon as possible, [the alliance of] 34 countries has been announced."
In announcing the coalition, SPA stated that Islam forbids "corruption and destruction in the world" and that terrorism represents "a serious violation of human dignity and rights, especially the right to life and the right to security".
Saudi Arabia is part of the US-led coalition against IS and is also leading a military intervention in Yemen against Shia Houthi rebels.
The list of 34 members: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Palestinians, Qatar, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
At
least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
At
least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
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The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
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The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
At
least 43 police officers were killed Monday when a bus in a convoy in
northern Argentina blew a tire and veered off the side of a bridge,
falling at about 65 feet (20 meters) in an accident that brought the sad
state of the South American nation’s roads into focus.
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who toured the scene, told
reporters that an initial investigation found that the right tire of the
bus ruptured.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
The bus was one of three carrying police near Salta, a city about 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) north of Buenos Aires. The National Gendarmerie officers, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, were on their way to Jujuy, a region in northern Argentina that borders Bolivia.
“This is a tragedy. We are going to work to make sure gendarmes are better equipped,” Bullrich said.
Local television images showed rescue crews working around the overturned bus, which authorities said was carrying around 60 people.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were injured and were being treated in area hospitals. Authorities also warned the death toll could rise.
Roads in Argentina, a large country with a land mass about four times the U.S. state of Texas, are poorly maintained in many rural areas.
The crash comes as President Mauricio Macri begins his first full week in office. He issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
“It’s for this reason that we need to improve the roads so that this doesn’t keep happening,” the statement read.
Still, Juan Manuel Urtubey, the governor of Salta, said that this accident wasn’t caused by the poor state of Route 34, which some locally call the “highway of death” for the high number of accidents that happen on it.
“There are problems, but not on that part of the road” where the crash happened, he said, adding that the tire appeared to be the cause.
In 2012, a dozen gendarmes were killed in accident in the southern province of Chubut when their bus collided with a truck.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/at-least-41-police-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-argentina/#sthash.EuHe9ERi.dpuf
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