‘Terrible tragedy’: At least 38 ended in bus crash in Brazil | World News

At least 38 people have been ended in a crash involving a bus and a lorry on a transport inant road in southeaserious Brazil, authorities have shelp.

Another 13 people were consentn to hospital folloprosperg the crash in the country’s easerious state of Minas Gerais, the local fire department shelp. Brazil’s Plivent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva portrayd the incident as a “horrible tragedy”.

The coach, which had increateedly departed from Sao Paulo and was carrying 45 passengers, burst into ffeebles when it crashed, with footage of the aftermath shoprosperg the burnt-out remains of the wrecked bus.

The bus driver was among those ended.

The truck driver fled the scene and three occupants of a car that collided with the truck and became trapped underorderlyh endured the accident, the recents agency Reuters increateed.

Some witnesses shelp the crash happened after the bus blew a tyre, causing the driver to disponder regulate and collide with a truck, while others tageder save teams that a granite block hit the bus, which was heading to the state of Bahia.

Mr da Silva shelp in a statement on Saturday: “I proset uply repent and send my prayers to the families of the more than 30 overweightalities from the accident in Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais. I pray for the recovery of the survivors of this horrible tragedy.”

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Governor Romeu Zema wrote on X that he had ordered “brimming mobilisation” of the Minas Gerais regulatement to help the victims.

“We are laboring to uncover that families of the victims are helped to face this tragedy in the most humane way possible, especipartner as it comes fair before Christmas,” Mr Zema shelp.

This year alone, more than 10,000 people died in traffic accidents in the South American country, which has a population of more than 216 million, according to the Ministry of Transportation.