More than 40 gendarmes died on the night of Sunday to Monday in a crash in Argentina. A flat tire would be at the origin of the Road exit of the bus which fell into a ravine on nearly twenty meters. A crash of bus carrying gendarmes did more than 40 dead in the night of Sunday to Monday in the Northwest of the Argentina. "The number of dead stood at 41. "Ten policemen were hospitalized, four of which are in a serious condition", said Francisco Marinaro, Director of civil security in the province of Salta, a mountainous region where the accident occurred. The vehicle came out of the road and had a fall more than 15 meters from a bridge. The car, which was part of a convoy of three police vehicles, rocked in the void when the driver lost control after having engaged on the bridge, said police in a statement. According to the civil security officer, a flat tire is at the origin of the drama. "We need to improve our highways" in the morning, rescuers discovered in first 20 bodies in the dry bed of a river. They then identified other prisoners the carcass of the vehicle bodies. "The majority were young policemen," said Gustavo Solis, Mayor of the city of Rosario de la Frontera, close to the scene of the accident. According to him, it happened on a road in poor condition. "Those who know the area well are trying to avoid the night", he said. The Argentine Mauricio Macri president, elected last month on a programme of improvement of the road network in rural areas, sent his condolences to the families of the victims. "We need to improve our highways so that these things happen more", said the head of State on the sidelines of a press conference in the province of Buenos Aires
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