SAO PAULO: At the very least 38 individuals had been killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday (Dec 21), officers mentioned, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva referred to as a “horrible tragedy”.
The accident in Minas Gerais state, involving a bus that caught fireplace within the collision, is the worst seen on Brazil’s federal highways since 2007, based on police information cited by native media.
Of their newest report, civil police confirmed 38 fatalities with eight individuals hospitalized.
Conflicting accounts of the accident have emerged: firefighters initially mentioned the bus at round 3:30 am native time had blown a tire close to the city of Lajinha, inflicting the motive force to lose management of the automobile and hit a truck. One other automobile additionally hit the bus from behind, officers mentioned, however its occupants survived.
Nonetheless, firefighters later cited witnesses as saying {that a} granite block being transported by the truck fell onto the bus, inflicting the accident.
