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Deadly 72 Hours on Roads in Peru, Spain and Argentina as PunoMoquegua Crash Death Toll Reaches 14

Prosecutors have opened investigations across the incidents.

Overview

  • Peru’s National Police and prosecutors say 14 people died in a multi-vehicle collision at km 142 of the PunoMoquegua road, including members of Muñequita Flor’s and La Nueva Tendencia, with identifications and transfers to regional morgues underway.
  • In the PunoMoquegua case, early inquiries point to a minivan first striking a low-bed trailer reportedly stopped on the highway before being hit by a lime truck, a sequence that left four survivors hospitalized.
  • In Lima’s Puente Piedra, a volquete carrying debris overturned and crushed a car, killing driver David Cruz García; the truck driver was detained for statements and relatives report the victim leaves three children.
  • Municipal cameras in La Victoria recorded the shooting of José Manuel Estrada Gonzales, 32, and police detained two suspects within minutes, seizing a firearm as homicide investigators review motives.
  • In Spain, a 29-year-old woman died in a Badajoz apartment fire as forensic teams ordered an autopsy with no hypothesis ruled out, while in a separate Lima case a 13-year-old was killed when a truck struck a mototaxi in Villa El Salvador.