At least 16 people died and 20 were injured this Sunday when a bus in which they were traveling overturned on a highway in the department of Antioquia (northwest of Colombia). students who were returning from an excursion, official sources reported.
The vehicle, which was returning from graduation trip of 11th grade students (2nd year of high school), fell down a ravine of more than 80 metrosbut the causes are still unknown.
He had left the tourist town of Tolú, in the Caribbean department of Sucre, and the accident occurred in the municipality of Remediosin the northeast of Antioquia, said the governor of that department, Andrés Julián Rendón.
“We woke up with the news of the accident of a school bus, which was driving from Tolú towards Medellín. It fell into an abyss on Belén road, El Chispero sector, between Remedios and Zaragoza. Its occupants: young students from the Liceo Antioqueño, from Bello (municipality of the metropolitan area of Medellín), who came from an excursion,” he stated the governor in your X account.
#Attention Bello’s Secretary of Education, Edgar Callejas, assured that at least 16 people died due to the road accident that occurred in the jurisdiction of Segovia. Among the victims of the accident is the bus driver who was bringing an excursion from the Liceo Antioqueño pic.twitter.com/zIDuoAkQmV
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According to Rendón in X, the entire hospital network in the area was activated “to attend to and support this emergency.”
For its part, the National Road Safety Agency said in a statement that the competent authorities are carrying out investigations “to establish the causes of the incident and confirm the number of fatalities and injured people.”
“Segovia”, because in the early hours of today on the road between the municipalities of Segovia and Remedios (Antioquia) a tourist bus with more than 40 grade 11 students from the Liceo Antioqueño de Bello rushed into a ravine.
Initial versions speak of several deaths.
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The rescue
The vehicle, which was transporting about 40 people from the municipality of Bello, fell into the void in circumstances that the authorities are still investigating, meanwhile, the rescue teams They fight against the terrain to extract possible trapped victims in the remains of the bus.
What should have been the perfect closing of a student period turned into a tragedy when the bus lost control on the Remedios-Segovia road.
Witnesses described the moment of impact as “apocalyptic”with the vehicle rolling down the cliff of more than 80 meters while the screams of the passengers mixed with the roar of twisting metal.
For the moment, at hospital municipality of Remedios have arrived 20 people, among them at least 11 are minors of age. Although there is little clinical information, it is known that the condition of some is critical, according to hospital sources.
Preliminary list of injured in the accident of the school bus that was driving from Tolú to Medellín, with students from the Liceo Antioqueño:
Treated at the Remedios hospital:
1. Nicolás Ochoa Vahos, 18 years old
2. Miguel Ángel Forero Quintero, 17 years old
3. David Rúa Vallejo, 18 years old— Ministry of Health and Social Inclusion (@SaludAntioquia) December 14, 2025
The authorities reiterated that the information available is preliminary, limited to the hospital records confirmed, and there is no official confirmation about the status of the rest of those involved, as well as that any update will be communicated through official channels, while the verification and investigation of the case continue.