Santiago, Jan 11 (IANS) A deadly accident killed two people and injured seven at the Dakar Rally as a race support vehicle collided with a taxi near the border between Chile and Peru.
The incident happened Thursday 10 km from the frontier, a statement on the race website said, reports Xinhua.
A support vehicle with three passengers and two taxis, one of them carrying six people and the other with four, were involved in the serious accident. One of the taxis collided head on with the support vehicle, and the second taxi overturned and rolled several times.
Two of the people in the first taxi – one of them the driver – died and seven others were injured. They were examined in hospitals in Tacna, Peru.
An Antonov aircraft of the Peruvian police had been put on special alert to transport the injured to Lima, Peru, in co-ordination with the rally’s medical service.
The Peruvian authorities have begun an inquiry into the accident in order to determine the exact causes.
