A head-on collision between a truck and a passenger bus on a highway in the Bolivian Andes on Saturday left 16 people dead and 14 injured, police said. 

"So far there have been 16 deaths and 14 injured people who have already been taken to the hospital," traffic officer Nilo Torrico said, adding that the drivers of both vehicles were dead. 

The accident happened on a road between the Bolivian town of Patacamaya and the town of Tambo Quemado in northern Chile, Torrico told the Unitel channel.