Road in Venezuela on fire as vehicle crashes into other cars

Officials say that at least eight people died in a car crash near the city of Caracas in Venezuela.

A big truck crashed into a bunch of cars that were stopped on the road after being in a crash.

One of the cars seemed to be carrying a very easily ignitable liquid.

Videos show the highway between Guarenas and Caracas on fire.

Firefighters and emergency services from Caracas have been sent to put out the fire and help the injured people.

The governor of Miranda state, where the crash site is, said that 16 vehicles caught fire in the incident. It happened after 07:00 local time (11:00GMT).

A video on social media shows a burned bus flipped on its roof on the road.

The deputy minister of risk management, Carlos Pérez Ampueda, explained what happened during the tragedy.

“There was a small accident with a truck and three cars on the road between Caracas and Guarenas. The road was being fixed with new asphalt,” he said on the local radio station Unión Radio.

He said a truck drove into the crash scene. “He said the first accident happened at 7:00 and the second at 7:15. ”

He also said that the lorry driver might not have been able to see the first accident because of bad weather.

But people in Venezuela have been using social media to say that the roads in many areas of the country have not been taken care of during the economic crisis.

Some people also said that large trucks that were not properly maintained had been in several recent crashes.