San Jose, Costa Rica – Twenty-six people were injured Wednesday, six of them seriously, when a bus carrying foreign tourists ran off the road and overturned en route to a mountainous region west of this capital, authorities said.
The accident took place in San Ramon, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from San Jose.
Reinaldo Paniagua, a senior doctor at the town’s hospital, told a local television station that 26 of the bus’s 42 passengers were brought to his facility. He said that six of the injured – at least one of them a U.S. citizen – were transferred to the capital because their injuries were more serious and required treatment unavailable in San Ramon.
The other 20 passengers suffered only minor cuts and bruises and were released within hours, the physician said.
