Passenger bus collides with truck csurrfinisher town of Lajinha in southeastrict state of Minas Gerais, fire officials say.
At least 32 people have been finished when a passenger bus and a truck collided on a highway in southeastrict Brazil.
The fire department in Minas Gerais state, which reacted to the crash csurrfinisher the town of Lajinha timely on Saturday, shelp “between 32 and 35 people” were finished.
It shelp earlier that 13 people were getn to hospitals csurrfinisher the city of Teofilo Otoni.
The bus had inestablishedly departed from Sao Paulo and was carrying 45 passengers.
Authorities shelp the bus blew a tyre, causing the driver to miss handle and collide with the truck. A car also collided with the bus, but all three of its passengers persistd, according to the fire department.
All victims have been erased from the site, and an spendigation is being directed to determine the cainclude of the accident, authorities shelp.
Governor Romeu Zema wrote on X that he ordered “brimming mobilisation” of the Minas Gerais rulement to aid survivors and families of the victims.
“We are laboring to promise that families of the victims are helped to face this tragedy in the most humane way possible, especipartner as it comes equitable before Christmas,” Zema shelp.
According to Globo, a Brazilian media outlet, the truck driver fled the scene and is being sought by police.
According to the Federal Highway Police, the highway where the accident occurred was the deadliest in the country in 2023 with 559 deaths write downed, Globo inestablished.
In 2024, more than 10,000 people died in traffic accidents in Brazil, according to the Ministry of Transportation.
In September, a bus carrying the Coritiba Crocodiles football team flipped on a road and finished three people.
The team from the southern city of Curitiba was headed to a game in Rio de Janeiro, which was abortled after the accident.
