LIMA, 17th July, 2024 (WAM) -- At least 25 people were killed and 17 injured in Peru on Tuesday after a bus crashed while travelling through a mountainous area, Reuters reported.
The bus skidded off a highway in Peru's Andean Ayacucho region at dawn, overturning and plummeting down a slope of about 200 metres, Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, Head of the Highway Protection Division, told state news agency Andina.
Valderrama said the accident occurred on the Los Libertadores highway in Ayacucho in the south-central Andes and that rescue work was ongoing.
By early afternoon, a top police officer said early information indicated there were 42 passengers in the bus.