Overview

• In Arequipa’s Cocachacra district, a minivan rear‑ended a parked cistern on the Panamericana Sur at km 1064, killing four people and injuring six, with poor phone and internet coverage hampering early alerts.
• Hours earlier near km 1000 in Cocachacra, a PeruRail locomotive struck a water tanker that was later found split in two, leaving the driver and a passenger hospitalized and the train operator unharmed.
• On a rural track in Ñacoreque, Sandia (Puno), a plate‑less combi plunged about 20 meters, seriously injuring six people who were transferred from Cuyocuyo to a clinic in Juliaca.
• Near Santa Clara del Mar on Argentina’s Ruta 11, a Ford Ka hit a lighting column, killing a two‑year‑old identified as Santino and sending the mother to hospital as a culposo fiscal ordered peritajes.
• In Buenos Aires, a semitrailer lost a refrigerated container carrying frozen chicken on the Autopista 25 de Mayo at km 3.5, blocking lanes and causing heavy delays without injuries, with authorities preserving the cargo for onward transport.