Truck crashes into crowd in Guatemala killing at least 32 people, injuring 9 - official
Traffic rules are frequently ignored in Guatema la, a Central American country of some 16.5 million people.
The truck struck a group of people who had gone onto the road to inspect another person who had been hit by a car, Cecilio Chacaj, a spokesman for the local fire department, told Reuters. Local reports said the man killed in the first accident was a community leader and president of the state Council of Urban and Rural Development.
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