30 folks die in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil | EUROtoday

A crash between a passenger bus and a truck has killed 30 folks on a freeway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil.

The Minas Gerais fireplace division, which responded to the scene, mentioned 13 others had been taken to hospitals close to the town of Teofilo Otoni. The bus had reportedly departed from Sao Paulo and was carrying 45 passengers.

Authorities mentioned on Saturday afternoon that each one victims had been faraway from the positioning and an investigation would decide the reason for the accident.

Witnesses instructed rescue groups that the bus blew a tyre, inflicting the motive force to lose management and collide with a truck. Others mentioned {that a} granite block hit the bus, the hearth 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 mobilisation” of the Minas Gerais authorities to help the victims.

“We are working to ensure that families of the victims are supported to face this tragedy in the most humane way possible, especially as it comes just before 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 workforce flipped on a street and killed three folks. The Coritiba Crocodiles, a workforce 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 cancelled following the lethal accident.