Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian government has raised the death toll from a bus accident to 54 while police continued to search for more possible victims.
The bus plunged 1,300 feet down a mountain in southern Brazil on Saturday.
Officials say the dead include at least eight young children, three adolescents, 24 women and 14 men. Ten people have been taken to hospitals.
The bus crashed on a curvy road that winds through a region popular for hiking and biking in Santa Catarina state, about 600 miles southwest of Rio de Janeiro.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
