Dozens killed in fatal auto crash

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March 15, 2015 11:14 AM

No fewer than 42 people have lost their lives in a fatal bus crash in Southern Brazil.

Many people have been killed following a fatal auto accident in Southern Brazil, AFP reports.

A tour bus, carrying 50 people plunged 1, 300 feet into a wooden ravine on Saturday, March 14 in Santa Catarina state, killing 42 people.

A local government spokesman told AFP that the death toll could be higher.

According to the spokesman, rescue workers were still finding it difficult to access the crash site because the accident happened as night fell which was complicating search efforts.

Meanwhile, emergency crews were able to rescue 12 survivors, who were taken to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.

‘There are people out there, on the hill, in the bus, trapped in the wreckage. But the chance of finding someone alive are pretty slim,’ Colonel Nelson Coelho said in a statement.

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