At least 39 people, including children, were killed Wednesday after a bus carrying migrants went off a cliff in Panama.
The wreckage of a bus is towed away in Gualaca, Panama, on Feb. 15. Photo: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images
At least 39 people, including children, were killed Wednesday after a bus carrying migrants went off a cliff in Panama,The bus carrying 66 migrants was traveling from the Darién Gap, a jungle that connects Colombia to Central America, and was headed to a shelter in Chiriqui, which borders Costa Rica.
About 20 people were hospitalized, some of them severely wounded, Panama's social security authority told Reuters. The driver missed the entrance to the shelter, turned around and lost control of the vehicle, according to Panama’s migration director, Samira Gozaine, per theThe migrants had paid for the private bus service to get to the shelter as they headed north, per the Post.
The crash indicates the alternate ways some people are trying to find in their desperation is not that much safer.
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