At least 13 people have died in a mudslide along a stretch of highway in central Bolivia's Yungas region.
The incident occurred Monday afternoon about 200km from La Paz on the highway linking the capital with the city of Caranavi, highway patrol officer Julio Venegas told the state-run ABI news agency.
The mudslide buried a van and caused a bus to plunge into a ravine 40m deep in the sector known as Puente Leon.
Ten of the bus passengers and three in the van died, while 26 others in both vehicles were injured.
The bodies of the dead were transported to the morgue at the hospital in Caranavi, while some of the injured are being attended to there but others were taken to the nearby town of Coroico.
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On average, road accidents in Bolivia result in about 1000 deaths and 40,000 injuries per year, according to government figures.
