Bolivian salt flats
Photo: Assaf Ginzburg
Two Israeli women have been killed in an accident that occurred in the Salar, or Bolivia's famed salt flats, the Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday. The Foreign Ministry said it contacted the victims' families.
A friend of the two young women, all three of whom were traveling in the country, was moderately injured as well when the car in which they were riding overturned. The driver, a local man, was also killed.
The accident occurred Tuesday. Rescue forces alerted to the scene arrived to find the two already dead, along with the driver, and evacuated the injured woman to a nearby hospital.
As Israel does not have a mission in Bolivia, the Israeli consul in Lima, Peru, plans to set forth in the coming hours to meet with the injured woman.
In May of 2008 five Israelis in their early twenties were killed in the salt flats in a similar accident.
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