At Least 10 Killed in Tourist Bus Crash in Southeastern Brazil
- At least 10 people were killed when a tourist bus overturned near Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Sunday morning.
- The bus was carrying dozens of tourists and overturned around 4:30 a.m. while traveling down a mountainous road.
- Petropolis Mayor Hingo Hammes called it a major traffic accident and said a large-scale rescue operation involved medical teams, firefighters, and the Federal Highway Police.
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A tourist bus traveling from Belo Horizonte to Copacabana overturned in a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Ten people died and 37 were injured in the accident. Some of the injured are reported to be in critical condition.
The vehicle, travelling from Belo Horizonte to Copacabana with 47 passengers, left the BR-040 and crashed in the early morning in Petrópolis; another 30 people were injured and authorities investigate the causes of the accident
At least 10 people were killed after a tourist bus overturned near the city of Petrópolis in the southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro, the Rio de Janeiro state fire department said on Monday.
The plan was to spend Sunday in Copacabana, in the South Zone of Rio, and return home at the end of the afternoon on a turn-around tour. But the tour of a group that left Belo Horizonte ended in tragedy still on the way. Without permission to make interstate transport of passengers, the bus with 56 people fell around 4:30 a.m. yesterday, at km 91 of BR-040, in Petrópolis, in the Serrana Region. Ten people died — nine women, including a pregnant …
At least ten people died and several were injured this Sunday when a tourist micro was dumped in the mountainous area of Petrópolis, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, as it descended along the BR-040 highway. The accident occurred around 4:30, at the height of kilometer 91 of the road, when the vehicle left the road and ended up lying next to the archen, in a sector surrounded by abundant vegetation, according to the Brazilian authoritie…
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