At Least 25 Die in Peruvian Andes After Bus Plummets Off Cliff

At Least 25 Die in Peruvian Andes After Bus Plummets Off Cliff
The wreckage on field after a bus skidded off a highway in in Peru's Andean Ayacucho region on July 16, 2024, in a still from video. Emerson Quispe Pacheco via Reuters/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
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LIMA—At least 25 people were killed and 17 injured in Peru on Tuesday after a bus crashed while traveling through a mountainous area, according to Ayacucho’s regional health department.

The bus skidded off a highway in Peru’s Andean Ayacucho region at dawn, overturning and plummeting down a slope of about 200 meters, Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, head of the highway protection division, told state news agency Andina.