A bus has plunged off a ridge in southern Brazil, killing at least 42 people, authorities have said.
Rescue workers were still trying to reach any survivors but access to the crash site in Santa Catarina state was difficult, a local government spokesman told AFP on Saturday, stressing that the death toll could be higher.
The tour bus carrying 50 people plunged 400 metres (1,300 feet) into a wooden ravine as night fell, complicating search efforts, the spokesman said.
The driver was believed to have lost control of the vehicle on the curvy stretch of highway, but the cause was still under investigation.
Emergency crews rescued 12 people who survived, who were taken to hospital for treatment.
“There are people out there, on the hill, in the bus, trapped in the wreckage. But the chance of finding someone alive are pretty slim,” Colonel Nelson Coelho said in a statement.
(AFP)
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