Truck smashes into bus in Argentina killing 18 | GlobalPost
At least 18 people were killed on an Argentine highway Friday when a
truck driving on the wrong side of the road crashed head-on into a bus,
local authorities said.
Both vehicles immediately burst into
flames, leaving twisted metal remains, television images showed.
Firefighters were still working on retrieving the charred bodies for
identification.
The collision, which early reports indicated left
15 people wounded, occurred in western Mendoza province, on a highway
that links Buenos Aires with Santiago in neighboring Chile.
"The
bus was hit head-on by a truck with apparently stolen plates of
Brazilian origin," Mendoza's health minister, Matias Roby, told a local
news channel, calling the incident "heartbreaking."
There were 32 people on the bus, he told the station, including two drivers who were both
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