At least 17 teenagers died This Sunday, about 20 people were injured after the bus in which they were traveling fell off a cliff in the Antioquía department, in the northwest Colombia. The images released after the accident show the shocking condition of the vehicle they were traveling in.
The accident occurred early in the morning. As stated Andres Julian Rendonthe governor of Antioquía, the transport had left Tolú and was on its way to Medellín when “fell into an abyss on Belén Street, El Chispero sector, between Remedios and Zaragoza.
On board the vehicle There were about 40 students from the Liceo Antioqueño in the municipality of Bello, who came from an excursion.
According to the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Inclusion The injured are between 16 and 17 years old.although there is also a 27-year-old person among them. The state agency did not provide data on who died in the accident.
Meanwhile, Edgar Callejas Arango, Bello’s education minister, claimed in a communication with local media that the number of deaths “is not official since…” People are still missing“.
The official also pointed out that the trip was not organized by the educational institution and that the principal of the institution informed him that among the passengers on the bus “Teachers weren’t thereat least authorized”.
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“So they transported some of the people who were on the bus that fell off a cliff in Antioquia.”
“These are the guys with degrees, we’re talking about young people aged 16, 17, 18, who You received your degree exactly 15 days ago and that today they enjoyed an activity that they had personally planned,” the official said.
According to local police, the students were in their final year and They had traveled to a beach to celebrate the end of their school years.
Images broadcast on local media show the moment after the fall and when the first rescuers arrived at the scene.
The microphone can be seen in them its roof is completely removed and fallen to the side, showing the inside of the blue and orange seats. The driver’s cab, however appears unrecognizable.
🟠 We regret the accident on the Segovia-Antioquia road, jurisdiction of Remedios; A public transport bus was involved.@MinTransporteCo @GobAntioquia @AlcaldiadeBello pic.twitter.com/PyKA8E1A5q
— National Road Safety Agency (@ansvcol) December 14, 2025
Around the transport you can see a large number of people, some sitting on the rocks, others coming closer and trying to help.
Colombia’s National Road Safety Agency, meanwhile, issued a statement saying that “the relevant authorities are conducting investigations to determine the causes of the accident and confirm the number of fatalities and injuries.”
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