Lima, Nov 24, 2024 (AFP) - Bus carrying Peru high schoolers careens off cliff, kills 11

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2024-11-24
Eleven people are dead after a bus full of students, teachers and parents plunged off a cliffside road in Peru, authorities said Sunday. According to Peru's Andina news agency, the bus -- carrying 57 people -- collided head on with a van before veering off the road on Saturday. "We have 11 deceased as a result of the accident. Among them, there are five 17-year-old schoolchildren and a two-year-old child," Jorge Sanchez, director of the regional......
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