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Tragedy in Peru: School Bus Crash Claims 17 Lives, Including a 2-Year-Old and Five Teens (PHOTOS)

Tragedy in Peru: School Bus Crash Claims 17 Lives, Including a 2-Year-Old and Five Teens (PHOTOS)

Seventeen people including a two-year-old child have been k!lled after a bus full of students, teachers, and parents plunged more than 20 meters off a cliffside road...Tap Here to Read the Full Story ▶▶

The students had been on a school trip before the vehicle – which carried 57 people – collided head-on with a van and veered off the road and into a ravine in Peru, according to the state government.

Jorge Sanchez, director of the regional directorate of San Martin said earlier: ‘We have 11 deceased as a result of the accident.

Authorities have since revised the de@th toll to 17.
Two-year-old child and five teenagers among 17 k!lled after school bus crash in Peru

‘The bus, which fell in a ravine more than 20 meters (65 feet) deep… left 17 dead and several people injured,’ the state government said in an update.

The bus was carrying a group of schoolchildren, their families and teachers from the town of Piura, in the country’s north, to the Amazonian department of San Martin.

It crashed while driving along a road in the province of Moyobamba, in the San Marin region.
Two-year-old child and five teenagers among 17 k!lled after school bus crash in Peru

According to local media, the crash occurred while the high school students were on a class trip.

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Tragedy in Peru: School Bus Crash Claims 17 Lives, Including a 2-Year-Old and Five Teens (PHOTOS)

Tragedy in Peru: School Bus Crash Claims 17 Lives, Including a 2-Year-Old and Five Teens (PHOTOS)

Tragedy in Peru: School Bus Crash Claims 17 Lives, Including a 2-Year-Old and Five Teens (PHOTOS)

The Andean country has a high incidence of bus accidents, with 3,138 de@ths recorded in traffic accidents in 2023, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications...Tap Here to Read the Full Story ▶▶

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