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At least nine workers from the San Juan de Dios Hospital are injured in a traffic accident in the Libramiento de Chimaltenango.
Microbús where the employees of the General San Juan de Dios Hospital were traveling was destroyed by the accident in the Libramiento de Chimaltenango. (Free Press Photo: Departmental Municipal Firefighters)
Departmental Municipal Firefighters reported that on Tuesday, May 27, a minibus fell into a ravine at kilometer 59 of the Chimaltenango Libramiento.
They added that the causes of the accident are still unknown and that lifeguards of several stations attend the emergency.
Nine passengers were rescued from the bottom of the ravine and then transferred to different hospitals.
According to local media, healthy hospital from the San Juan de Dios Hospital was traveling in the minibus. The transport unit was destroyed by the impact, according to the image shared by the Firefighters.
The lifeguards used ties and stretchers to take the injured to the surface.
Provial reported that, by the accident, the passage in the right lane is interrupted with the direction of the East.
Communication of the San Juan de Dios Hospital reported that six of the patients were transferred to the Chimaltenango National Hospital. The injured are nurses.
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Provial Brigades attend made of transit on km. 60 of the Inter-American Route CA-1 West (Libramiento de Chimaltenango). Obstructed lane right to the East and 10 people transferred.
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-Provial-Civ (@Provialoficial) May 27, 2025