DEAD AND INJURED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

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One person died early this morning in a traffic accident recorded at kilometer 309 of the Western Pan-American Highway near the Colombia Roundabout, in Quezaltepeque.

Responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Quezaltepeque section, were alerted about the road incident around one in the morning.

Upon arriving at the crash site, they found a vehicle overturned in the direction of Quezaltepeque. Inside the vehicle was the driver, who was no longer showing vital signs, so he was left at the scene. The causes of the traffic accident in which the victim lost his life are unknown.

However, authorities identified the deceased victim as Cristian Rafael Machuca, 44 years old.

Meanwhile, responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Ilopango section, attended around five-thirty in the morning a traffic accident that occurred on the Pan-American Highway near the Apulo turnoff, involving a minibus and a truck.

In the traffic accident, four people traveling in the private collective-transport minibus were injured; two of them had to be admitted to a healthcare facility.

Among the victims were Jonathan Bonilla Barahona, 25, and Kevin Leonardo Laínez Hernández, 21, who were admitted to San Bartolo National Hospital. Meanwhile, Oscar Alexander Ortiz Ramírez, 23, and Gabriel Antonio Corcio Hernández, 29, were treated at the accident scene.

An older adult was run over this morning on Ejército Boulevard near Antekirta, while attempting to cross the roadway in the Sitram lane, in Soyapango.

Responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador assisted Raúl Antonio Trujillo Hernández, 52, who had several traumas to his body and was therefore transferred to a healthcare facility.