A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 38 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said.

At least 38 people were killed in a road crash after a bus carrying 45 passengers collided with a truck near the town of Teófilo Otoni in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The accident in Minas Gerais state, involving a bus that caught fire in the collision, was the worst on Brazil’s federal highways since 2007, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police (PRF) said. Civil police confirmed 38 fatalities with nine people hospitalized.

The death toll from a bus crash in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has risen to 41, regional police reported Sunday. A total of 11 bodies have been identified from Saturday’s accident, although security forces have not said how long it will take to identify the rest because the

A truck and a passenger bus collision killed 38 and injured 13 others during an early-morning accident Saturday in southeastern Brazil.

At least thirty two people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, adding that the death toll could still rise.Another vehicle also hit the bus from behind, officials said,

Close to 40 people have been killed in a devastating accident between a passenger bus and a track over the weekend. According to reports from authorities, 38 people have died following an accident between a passenger bus and a truck early on Saturday morning.