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Published: 29 January 2023
Edit by| Paul Mitchel
29-Jan.-2023
At least 24 people died in northern Peru after a bus carrying 60 passengers plunged off a cliff early on Saturday, police said.
Peru's transportation supervisory agency confirmed the crash in a statement without providing the number for fatalities or injuries.
The tragedy occurred in the district of El Alto in the far north of Peru, the agency said
24 people died Saturday when a bus carrying 60 passengers, including an unknown number of Haitians, plunged over a cliff in northwestern Peru, police said.
They had earlier stated the toll in Piura province as 25, before correcting it to 24.
The bus, belonging to the Qorianka Tours company, departed from Lima and was en route to Tumbes, on the border with Ecuador, when it went off the road near the town of Organos, according to police.
Police at the scene told local media that the accident occurred at a difficult spot known as "Devil's Curve," but they said the cause remained under investigation.
An unknown number of injured passengers were transported to hospitals in El Alto and Mancora, popular resorts some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) north of Lima.
Some passengers were from Haiti, the police said.
