At least 37 people died. early this Saturday morning following a spectacular accident involving busA truck and one more car is able Minas GeraisIn Brazil, security forces reported in the afternoon.

Firefighters initially reported 22 dead, a figure that increased as the work progressed. rescuing corpsessome of which were “charred and enclosed between glands”.

The Federal Traffic Police, in turn, explained that number of victims “preliminary” because a fire in the car caused by the accident made identification difficult.

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Thirty people were killed when a truck and a passenger bus carrying more than 45 people collided on a highway in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
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The driver of the bus on which it was first established that About 45 passengers were traveling.lost control on a section of the BR-116 highway passing through the municipality of Teofilo Otoni.

According to the Federal Traffic Police, this happened after “Large granite block” fell from truck what’s happening over there at that moment he crashed into a bus, which caught fire and was eventually completely destroyed.

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Then another car following him collided with a granite truck, although he Three passengers survived with ‘serious injuries’.

Another 13 survivors from the bus were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment, firefighters said.

President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva“immensely” regretted what happened, expressed solidarity with the families of the victims and said he was praying for the recovery of the wounded.

The Federal Government places everything necessary at the disposal of the City Council of Teofilo Otoni and the Government of Minas Gerais.

In turn, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, assured that he had ordered “total mobilization” of the regional executive power and reported that the security forces worked “without a break” from dawn until respond quickly to an incident.

EFE