A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 37 folks on a freeway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officers mentioned.
The Minas Gerais hearth division, which responded to the scene, mentioned 13 others had been taken to hospitals close to town of Teofilo Otoni. The bus had reportedly departed from Sao Paulo and was carrying 45 passengers.
Authorities mentioned Saturday afternoon that every one victims had been faraway from the location and an investigation would decide the reason for the accident. Witnesses advised rescue groups that the bus blew a tire, inflicting the driving force to lose management and collide with a truck. Others mentioned {that a} granite block hit the bus, the fireplace division added.
A automotive with three passengers additionally collided with the bus, however all three survived.
Gov. Romeu Zema wrote on X that he ordered “full mobilization” of the Minas Gerais authorities to help the victims.
“We are working to make sure that households of the victims are supported to face this tragedy in essentially the most humane means potential, particularly because it comes simply earlier than Christmas,” Zema mentioned.
In 2024, greater than 10,000 folks died in site visitors accidents in Brazil, in keeping with the Ministry of Transportation.
In September, a bus carrying a soccer crew flipped on a street and killed three folks. The Coritiba Crocodiles, a crew from the southern Brazilian metropolis of Curitiba, was headed to a recreation in Rio de Janeiro, the place they had been set to play within the nation’s American soccer championship. The recreation was canceled following the lethal accident.
