{"id":4381,"date":"2026-03-21T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:32:32","slug":"cinco-fallecidos-y-21-heridos-deja-choque-en-riobamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/cinco-fallecidos-y-21-heridos-deja-choque-en-riobamba\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinco fallecidos y 21 heridos deja choque en Riobamba"},"content":{"rendered":"

El\u00a0siniestro<\/strong>\u00a0ocurri\u00f3 en la\u00a0Panamericana Sur<\/strong>, a la altura de la\u00a0curva de Lic\u00e1n<\/strong>, en\u00a0Riobamba<\/strong>, jurisdicci\u00f3n de\u00a0Chimborazo<\/strong>, donde ciudadanos alertaron a ECU 911 sobre el fuerte impacto entre las unidades de transporte de las cooperativas\u00a0Ba\u00f1os<\/strong>\u00a0y\u00a0Santa<\/strong>, la noche del viernes 20 de marzo de 2026 a eso de las 23:00.<\/p>\n

Tras la emergencia, se coordin\u00f3 la atenci\u00f3n con la Polic\u00eda Nacional, Cuerpo de Bomberos y ambulancias del Ministerio de Salud, quienes brindaron asistencia\u00a0prehospitalaria<\/strong>\u00a0y donde se confirm\u00f3 la muerte de al menos\u00a0cinco<\/strong>\u00a0personas, incluidos los dos conductores de las unidades.<\/p>\n

En el auxilio se identific\u00f3 a\u00a021 personas heridas<\/strong>. Algunas fueron trasladadas a distintas casas de salud, mientras que, otros con golpes m\u00e1s leves fueron atendidos en el lugar.<\/p>\n

Equipos de rescate trabajaron para liberar a los\u00a0cuerpos<\/strong>\u00a0de los choferes que quedaron atrapados entre los dos veh\u00edculos. Las autoridades ya iniciaron las investigaciones para determinar las causas de este accidente mortal.<\/p>\n

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Extraoficialmente se conoce que la unidad de la\u00a0Cooperativa Santa<\/strong>\u00a0se dirig\u00eda hacia\u00a0Ambato<\/strong>, mientras que, el bus de la\u00a0Cooperativa Ba\u00f1os iba hacia Guayaquil<\/strong>, cuando se impactaron en medio de la noche.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El\u00a0siniestro\u00a0ocurri\u00f3 en la\u00a0Panamericana Sur, a la altura de la\u00a0curva de Lic\u00e1n, en\u00a0Riobamba, jurisdicci\u00f3n de\u00a0Chimborazo, donde ciudadanos alertaron a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecuador"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189.webp",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189-768x432.webp",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189-1024x576.webp",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189.webp",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189.webp",1200,675,false],"morenews-featured":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189-1024x576.webp",1024,576,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Machala 247","author_link":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/author\/danielmorocho\/"},"category_info":"Ecuador<\/a>","tag_info":"Ecuador","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_6003.jpg_1950274189.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgQ5hh-18F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}