Two of them are minors.

At least 10 victims left the overturning of a semi-trailer truck on the road that goes from Motavita in Tunjain the sector of Ms Limbaniain the afternoon of Saturday 11 February.

“Around 6:45 in the afternoon, they reported a traffic accident in the San Ricardo sector, this is the national road of San José, from Tunja to Moniquirá”, he reported for The weatherLieutenant Darío Pedreros, commander of the Tunja fire brigade.

cargo vehicle knocked down in a collision with a truck Ford 350. The semi-trailer was transporting irregular migrants of Venezuelan nationality, according to the report of the local authorities, who responded to the emergency. As a result, 3 people are said to have lost their lives, including a woman and two minors.

“Unfortunately, 3 people died from this rollover where a semi-trailer truck and a Ford 350 were involved: a woman of around 25 years old and two minors, around 6 or 7 years old.

Until the place comes Tunja Fire Department and to carry out the rescue work, they were forced to use special machinery to move the vehicle: “On the site, it was necessary to have a fire truck and a rescue unit to be able to move the vehicle , and even the At present, seven patients have been transferred to the various care centers, with activation of the trauma code at San Rafael Hospital in the city of Tunja”.

The seven injured were transported to medical centers in Tunja, such as the San Rafael Hospital, the Andes Clinic, Mediláser and the National Metropolitan Hospital, in which a spice codel for this type of case.

“In the load there were about seven people; however, the person accompanying the semi-trailer truck driver, the Ford 3560 driver and the semi-trailer truck driver were also injured,” Lt. Pedreros said.

And he added: “These injured or deceased patients were transported in the load of the semi-trailer and, apparently, they are of Venezuelan nationality”. A situation that they will verify a few minutes later, when they are admitted for treatment.

On the spot, they tried to inquire about the immigration status of the people concerned, but the commander replied that they had no knowledge of their situation in the country, because events had unfolded so quickly that he there was no more time for that:

“No, at the moment we do not have this information. We have been able to determine that they are of Venezuelan nationality, but we do not have this information either. Due to the emergency, they have been transferred with activation of the Traumatology Code and at the moment they are, for the vast majority of them, in the San Rafael Hospital; however, it was also necessary to activate the Andes Clinic and the Metropolitan Hospital of the city “, he mentioned in an interview for the aforementioned publication.

This information will be corroborated once they have thought about repatriate the bodies of the victims or prosecute the hospitalization process immigrants. At present, all are being treated in clinics in the capital of Boyacá, where they have been transferred with several wounds after the accident.

The Tunja fire department’s account added: “The dead people were transported illegally on the semi-trailer; while the drivers of two of the vehicles involved are being assessed. The possibility of more injuries is checked.”

After the accident, the driver of the semi-trailer truck reportedly lost control of the vehicle and fell into a ditch, from where the passengers were to be rescued. So far none of them have given their version of what happened, so we don’t know who is responsible for the accident

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