“So far we have 37 confirmed deaths,“ Colonel Wilson Flores told AFP of the crash near the city of Uyuni in the department of Potosi.
Among the victims were at least two foreigners: an 80-year-old Peruvian woman and a three-year-old German girl. The other three deceased minors were aged 13, 15 and 17.
One of the buses was heading to the city of Oruro, the scene this weekend of the Oruro Carnival, one of the largest festivals in Latin America that attracts tens of thousands of people.
Officials also said one of the drivers, who survived the crash in grave condition, had “alcohol breath,“ so a blood test was performed.
Road accidents kill an average of 1,400 people every year in the country of about 12 million inhabitants, according to government data.
In January, another nineteen people were killed when a bus careened off a road, also near Potosi.
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