Venezuela highway in fire blaze as lorry ploughs into crash site
A lorry ploughed into several cars which were stopped on the highway after being involved in an earlier accident.
One of the vehicles appears to have been transporting a highly flammable liquid.
Videos from the scene show the highway, which links the cities of Guarenas and Caracas, engulfed in flames.
Firefighters and emergency services have been deployed from Caracas to extinguish the fire and tend to the injured.
The governor of Miranda state, where the crash site is located, said 16 vehicles had caught fire in the incident, which happened after 07:00 local time (11:00GMT).
Footage shared on social media shows a burnt-out passenger bus lying on its roof on the highway.
The deputy minister of risk management, Carlos Pérez Ampueda, described how the tragedy had unfolded.
"There was a minor crash involving a lorry and three cars on Caracas-Guarenas carriageway, where old asphalt was being replaced," he told local radio station Unión Radio.
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