Six dead 20 injured as bus plunges into ravine

 
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SIX PEOPLE were killed and 20 injured  (many seriously)   when a bus plunged down a ravine and into a river at Las Lajas, in the village of Las Cumbres, in North Panama. on Thursday, June 20.

 Passing motorists tried to help those who were able to get out of the bus until the arrival of personnel from the Fire Department, the  Civil Protection System ( Sinaproc) and the Police.

Five ambulances of the SUME 911 and two of the Fire Department were used to transfer the injured to the nearest hospital. Several were severely injured and one died.

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