SANTO DOMINGO (AFP) – At least six people died on Sunday in the Dominican Republic after a truck crashed into an establishment on the Caribbean island nation’s south coast, officials said.
The accident occurred in the early hours in the town of Azua, about 100 kilometres west of the capital Santo Domingo.
A police source originally put the preliminary death toll at nine, but director of public health in Azua Joel Montano lowered it to six, with three people in critical condition.
An additional 32 people were injured in the accident.
Local media published photos of a red truck loaded with avocados that crashed into the bar, and of dead and injured people strewn around the ground.
The driver of the truck fled the scene but police detained a person riding with him as they investigate the accident.
