Easter Week toll

[NewsWhore]

Depending on just which newspaper you read, the toll for Easter Week is being reported as anything between 25 or 40 deaths and over 300 injuries. The annual trip to the country's beaches and rivers, accompanied by large amounts of alcohol, excitement and frivolity has, according to Diario Libre, claimed 40 lives this year. The official report will be released later today. Most Easter Week casualties were victims of traffic accidents, and to a lesser extent, drowning. According to the Emergency Operations Center (COE), these figures are similar to last year's, although the number of accidents has been reduced. If this is indeed the case, much of the praise should go to the 30,000+ volunteers wearing orange T-shirts who patrolled the roads, beaches and highways over the holiday weekend. Juan Mendez, the head of the COE told reporters that most of the accidents involved motorcycles.

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