Overview
- Rescuers found the bus at the bottom of a roughly 150-meter ravine on a remote Andean road near Simiatug in Bolívar province.
- National agencies, including the Secretariat for Risk Management, police, health services and firefighters, continued rescue, transfer and identification operations into Monday.
- The official risk agency reported 10 injured, though first responders initially described the number of wounded as undetermined.
- The vehicle belonged to the Ambateñita cooperative and was traveling the Ambato–Simiatug route, with preliminary accounts indicating excess passengers.
- Ecuador’s prosecutor’s office opened investigative proceedings, and the crash occurred during a national referendum day that was unrelated to the cause.