At least 25 folks have been killed after a bus collided with a truck in Bahia state in northeastern Brazil, state firefighters mentioned Monday.
A video, recorded in the course of the evening, confirmed the truck surrounded by blue bins stuffed with mangoes and scattered on the bottom. Several firefighters could possibly be seen working on the scene.
“Military firefighters responded to an incident that left 25 lifeless” about 155 miles (250 kilometers) from the capital of Bahia state, Salvador.
Five folks had been additionally injured within the accident Sunday evening, in accordance with Brazilian press studies, which printed photos of the twisted fuselage of the truck.
The explanation for the accident remains to be unknown. The our bodies of the victims have been handed over to the police for identification.
The mayor’s workplace of Jacobina, a metropolis near the accident, declared three days of official mourning on Monday and is making ready a “collective wake” for the victims.
“The prefecture expresses its honest condolences to the households and associates of the victims on this second of unprecedented unhappiness and ache,” it mentioned in a word posted on Instagram.
It is the newest crash involving a bus and a number of fatalities in Brazil. Last August seven followers of Sao Paulo-based Corinthians had been killed on a freeway within the southeast of the nation after attending a match of their staff towards Cruzeiro in Belo Horizonte.
And a minimum of 10 folks had been killed and two dozen injured in March 2022 when a bus carrying a body of workers plunged off a freeway in southern Brazil.