BUENOS AIRES: At least eight people, including five members of a little league football team, died in late hours of Thursday in a road accident in Argentina, the second major crash in as many days, authorities said.

According to Ruben Golia, mayor of the nearby city, Chacabuco, the minibus was carrying the children – all between the ages of six and 10, slammed into a truck on a road around 180 kilometers west of Buenos Aires.

Golia, speaking to local television, said another 13 people were injured in the accident, which other officials said took place on a dangerous stretch of a two-lane road that is under construction and frequently used by the trucks.

On Tuesday, eight people were killed, including seven schoolgirls and the director of a religious school, when their school bus collided with a train in the centre of the country.

Last month, another collision between a train and a bus in the capital Buenos Aires killed 11 people and wounded another 212.