Overview
- Two successive blasts struck the RAM‑2 “Bolívar” maintenance centre in Viacha on Friday, detonating a section used to store fireworks and pyrotechnic material.
- Rescue teams have recovered six bodies and treated scores of wounded with more than 80 people reported injured overall while searches go on for the missing.
- The defence ministry says 11 uniformed personnel remain unaccounted for and that some of the missing are conscripts aged 18 and 19 who were serving mandatory service.
- Firefighters warned a lingering heat source at the site could trigger further explosions, prompting evacuations, cordons and transfers of serious cases to hospitals in El Alto and La Paz.
- President Rodrigo Paz ordered a technical inquiry and the Viacha public prosecutor has opened probes into manslaughter and related crimes to determine cause, storage practices and responsibility.