{"id":6977,"date":"2026-02-28T01:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:13:55","slug":"15-killed-after-military-plane-crashes-on-to-busy-road-in-bolivia-reports-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6977","title":{"rendered":"15 killed after military plane crashes on to busy road in Bolivia &#8211; reports | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/10\/1920x1080\/skynews-breaking-breaking-news_7042253.png?20251231104834\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>A military plane has crashed on to \u200ca busy road in the \u200bcity of El Alto, near Bolivia&#8217;s capital La Paz, killing 15 people and injuring at least 30 others, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolivian Air Force Hercules aircraft was transporting \u200cnew banknotes to the interior of the country, media \u200bstation Unitel said, citing the Bolivian Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>The plane had \u200bdeparted from the city of Santa Cruz and crashed after landing and skidding off the runway \u200bon to a neighbouring street, according to \u2060local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters news agency reports that social media footage showed chaotic scenes of \u200bpeople appearing \u2060to pick up money that lay strewn on the ground following \u200cthe crash.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities on the scene were warding off people using water hoses.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, however, has not been able to verify the images.<\/p>\n<p>Video broadcast on local media showed \u2060the aircraft was severely damaged, as \u200bwere a number of vehicles along \u200bthe road where the crash took place.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet confirmed injuries or fatalities.<\/p>\n<p><em>This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the <a href=\"https:\/\/qrcode.skynews.com\/skynews\/appdownload\"><strong>Sky News app<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><em><em>You can also <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va868Fv8vd1UsF99tP1u\"><em><strong>follow us on WhatsApp<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> and subscribe to our <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews\"><em><strong>YouTube channel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> to keep up with the latest news.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/15-killed-after-military-plane-crashes-on-to-busy-road-in-bolivia-reports-13513193\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A military plane has crashed on to \u200ca busy road in the \u200bcity of El Alto, near Bolivia&#8217;s capital La Paz, killing 15 people and injuring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}