2 overturned buses injure 45

AT LEAST 45 people wer injured after a traffic accident  on the Panama-Colon highway  involving three diablos rojos (“red devils” recycled  US school buses) in Colon Province on  Wednesday morning February 3.

Most of the injured were on their way to work in the Free Zone.

Witnesses  say that the  negligence of a  third  bus  on the Buena Vista route  was the cause of the accident.

It happened   at 8.30 am  on a bend known  as Curva del Cebo (Bait bend)  in  Quebrada Ancha  A fleet of ambulances from the 911 Service, the Fire Service, the Red Cross. National Police   and the Civil Defense Service (Sinaproc) ferried the injured to the  Manuel Amador Guerrero hospital in Colon.

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