Guatemala City, — A total of 14 former paramilitary members were killed and more than 50 of their colleagues were injured when the bus they were riding fell into a chasm as deep as 50 meters in Guatemala City on Saturday (01/08/2011).

The accident happened a few hours before dawn near San Marcos west. And rescue survivors estimate, the cause of the accident was the bus failed to stop.

All the victims were taken to several hospitals in the area. The former paramilitaries were on the bus to San Marcos to take their salaries after obeying reforestation programs in the region.

Since 1960 until 1996 Guatemala had suffered 36 years of civil war that killed as many as 200,000 people.

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