Death Toll in Bus Accident in Peru increases to 50

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 06:16 PM

Death Toll in Bus Accident in Peru increases to 50

Lima Jan 4: The death toll in a bus Accident in Peru has been increased to 50.Peruvian emergency workers on Wednesday have said they had recovered 50 bodies - six of them children - from a horrific bus crash over a cliff north of the capital Lima.

The officers have said that "The coach plunged around 100 meters (330 feet) over a seaside cliff on Tuesday after a collision with a truck on a precarious stretch known as the devil's curve.It had been traveling from Huacho, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of the capital, to Lima with 55 passengers registered and two crew on board. The vehicle landed upside down on rocks at the edge of the sea."

The regional head of Lima's health service, Felic Palomo, told that "We have finished the painful task of recovering the bodies. Fifty bodies have been recovered from the accident,"They have been identified by their next of kin."