{"id":424397,"date":"2026-05-04T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424397\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:54:08","slug":"at-least-two-killed-37-injured-run-over-by-monster-truck-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424397\/","title":{"rendered":"At least two killed, 37 injured run over by monster truck in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two people were killed and a further 37 were injured on Sunday after a monster truck plowed into crowds at an exhibition event in the southern Colombian city of Popayan, in the province of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-894120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cauca<\/a>, Governor Octavio Guzm\u00e1n said in an early Monday X\/Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We deeply regret the accident that occurred this afternoon, Sunday, in the Boulevard Rose sector, which has preliminarily left 37 people injured and at least 2 deceased,&#8221; Guzm\u00e1n wrote, sharing footage of the incident. &#8220;We have deployed our entire institutional capacity and coordination with the public and private hospital network, firefighters, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/ambulances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ambulance<\/a> network to address the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We express our solidarity with the families of those affected by this tragic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-894955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accident<\/a>, as well as with our capital city, Popay\u00e1n.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">All those injured in the incident were evacuated to the hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A Popayan city official said one of the victims was a 10-year-old girl, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-894355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colombian<\/a> newspaper El Espectador, adding that a second individual had died after being evacuated to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Videos on social media showed a large monster truck clearing an obstacle but failing to brake in time, causing the vehicle to veer off to the side and plow into spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was unable to independently verify the footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two people were killed and a further 37 were injured on Sunday after a monster truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20205,165917,4646,42,4144,43,40,38,41,39,42572],"class_list":["post-424397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-ambulances","tag-colombia","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}