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At least 14 people have died and several were injured on Friday, when the bus they were traveling in has since plunged into the void. a height of fifteen meters in the state of Minas Gerais, in the southeast of Brazil.

The serious accident occurred this afternoon on the bridge of a secondary road, near the town of Joao Monlevade, according to the federal highway police.

The authorities explained that 11 people died at the scene of the crash and three more died when they were taken to hospital.

The microphone, what in principle it would be tourism and he had Alagoas (northeast) license plates, fell from a height of 15 meters for causes which are under investigation, although it is suspected that a second vehicle was involved in the incident.

According to images broadcast by TV Globo, the impact of the bus against a train track that passed under the bridge generated a small exterior fire which was quickly extinguished by firefighters who went to the site to help the victims.

It is not yet known how many people have traveled on the bus, but sources from the fire department and the Federal Road Police speak of around 20 injured who were referred to a hospital in the region, some of them in serious condition.

On November 25, a collision between a truck and a bus near the town of Taguaí, in the state of San Pablo, left 41 people dead and 10 injured, most of them workers at a textile company. Brazilian road authorities estimate that between 2015 and 2019, an average of 30,000 people per year died in road accidents in the country.