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70 dead in Bolivia carnival festivities
Performers during Bolivian Carnival
The Bolivian government says 70 people have died, most of them in road accidents, during carnival festivities in the Andean country.
Interior Minister Carlos Romero said on Wednesday that police reported 70 deaths, including 37 in traffic accidents, AFP reported.
That toll did not include another five people killed in an incident where an overloaded footbridge collapsed...
Police discovers firearms in US embassy van in Bolivia
A policeman outside the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia
Bolivian police officers have discovered firearms in a van belonging to the US embassy during a routine search in the country’s northeast.
Bolivia’s Interior Minister Carlos Romero said that the firearms, including three shotguns, a revolver and more than two-thousand cartridges, were found in the northeastern city of Trinidad on Tuesday,...