No less than 37 lifeless after crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil
A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 37 individuals on a freeway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officers mentioned.
The Minas Gerais fireplace division, which responded to the scene, mentioned 13 others have been taken to hospitals close to town of Teofilo Otoni. The bus had reportedly departed from Sao Paulo and was carrying 45 passengers.
Authorities mentioned Saturday afternoon that every one victims had been faraway from the positioning and an investigation would decide the reason for the accident. Witnesses instructed rescue groups that the bus blew a tire, inflicting the driving force to lose management and collide with a truck. Others mentioned {that a} granite block hit the bus, the fireplace division added.
A automobile with three passengers additionally collided with the bus, however all three survived.
Gov. Romeu Zema wrote on X that he ordered “full mobilization” of the Minas Gerais authorities to help the victims.
“We’re working to make sure that households of the victims are supported to face this tragedy in essentially the most humane means doable, particularly because it comes simply earlier than Christmas,” Zema mentioned.
In 2024, greater than 10,000 individuals died in site visitors accidents in Brazil, based on the Ministry of Transportation.
In September, a bus carrying a soccer group flipped on a highway and killed three individuals. The Coritiba Crocodiles, a group from the southern Brazilian metropolis of Curitiba, was headed to a recreation in Rio de Janeiro, the place they have been set to play within the nation’s American soccer championship. The sport was canceled following the lethal accident.
