Bus plunged over 100m cliff in Peru. 51 dead
The bus carrying 57 people was headed to Peru's capital when it was struck by a tractor trailer and plunged down a slope at a narrow stretch of highway known as the "Devil's Curve," said Claudia Espinoza with Peru's voluntary firefighter brigade.
It plunged 100 meters (330 feet) and landed upside down on rocks at the edge of the sea, strewing lifeless bodies of passengers among the rocks.
"It's very sad for us as a country to suffer an accident of this magnitude," Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said in a statement.
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Sources: bbc.co.uk, news.lv, telegraph.co.uk
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