Several seriously injured people were taken to a nearby hospital.
Guatemala City:
At least 51 people were killed Monday in Guatemala City when a bus crashed through a guard rail on a bridge and plunged into a ravine, rescue workers said.
The local fire department said the bodies of 51 people were retrieved from the site of one of the worst accidents in the Central American country in years.
Emergency workers had managed to extricate 10 injured people from the bus, which crashed off the Puente de Belice bridge at the northern entrance to Guatemala’s capital into a river contaminated with effluent.
Several seriously injured people were taken to a nearby hospital, Ruano said.
According to local media, the bus was travelling to Guatemala City from the town of San Agustin Acasaguastlan in El Progreso department, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) to the northeast.
Police were investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred in the early morning.
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