Bolivia: airplane loaded with banknotes crashes, 20 lifeless, race for cash within the streets | EUROtoday

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Tragedy and chaos in Bolivia. At least 20 individuals died after a C-130 Hercules, carrying a load of banknotes, skidded off the runway throughout touchdown close to La Paz. The toll was confirmed by the Police.

The cargo airplane, utilized by the navy, ended up on a highway, destroying and damaging automobiles and vehicles, as proven within the photographs launched by native media.

Soon a crowd of individuals arrived on the scene in an try to gather the banknotes. The police intervened with tear gasoline. Then the identical authorities would set fireplace to the banknotes.

The causes of the accident will not be but clear. Testimonies collected by the AFP company level the finger on the dangerous climate. In latest hours, Rene Tambo, police colonel in El Alto, instructed journalists that “there are around 20” victims, “maybe more”.

Shortly earlier than, Colonel Pavel Tovar of the National Fire Brigade Department had reported a dying toll of “15, 16 people”. The Ministry of Health confirms that not less than 28 individuals have been injured. El Alto hospitals have began a blood assortment marketing campaign. The C-130 had departed from Santa Cruz and the accident occurred through the touchdown section at El Alto worldwide airport. The Ministry of Defense specified that “the banknotes that the crashed plane was carrying did not have serial numbers” and “therefore have no value”.