15 killed as bus, truck collide in Brazil
Agence France-Presse
9:14 am | Sunday, March 18th, 2012
BRASILIA – Fifteen people were killed and several were injured when a bus and a truck collided in Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais, authorities said.
The accident took place outside the city of Felixandia, firefighters said.
We have “15 confirmed dead at the scene. Some of the injured are seriously hurt, and some of them were trapped in the wreckage,” local firefighters said in a statement.
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