TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras?A flat-bed truck overloaded with 26 people plunged off a mountain road and down a ravine in Honduras killing 11 people, including two children, and injuring everybody else on board, highway police said Saturday.

The accident occurred late Friday in Meambar, Comayagua department, 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of the capital Tegucigalpa, the police said.

The small truck was so overloaded with riders that its driver lost control and swerved over the side of the road into a deep ravine, they added.