At least 7 dead and about twenty injured in bus overturn in southern Brazil

At least seven people were killed, and 22 others were injured when a bus carrying tourists visiting the Iguaçu Falls in the state of Paraná, in the southern region of Brazil, overturned on Tuesday, according to local authorities.

According to the Federal Highway Police in Paraná, the crashed vehicle was carrying 54 people and had left Florianópolis, the state of Santa Catarina (south) ‘s capital, for Foz do Iguaçu, a Brazilian city bordering Argentina and Paraguay.

The local Fire Brigade told the media that the fatalities included an Argentinean woman and her three-year-old daughter, both tourists.

According to the report, the crashed bus belongs to the company Viação Catarinense and fell down a hill after leaving the BR-277 highway in the municipality of Fernandes Pinheiro, in the state’s central region Paraná.

Local authorities launched an investigation to determine the causes of the accident, in which another vehicle was also involved.

“It is a dramatic situation; we took the victims to a nearby emergency center. I took eight injured, for example,” paramedic Tiago Siebert told local news network RPC.

One of the surviving passengers, Alexandro de Oliveira Gamaro, said that after the rollover, he spoke with the bus driver, who admitted that he had fallen asleep.

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