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Several dead in bus accident in Peru

By AFP
26 September 2021   |   4:17 pm
More than 30 passengers died, including two children, and more than 20 were injured when a bus plummeted from a cliff in Peru early on Tuesday, in the country's third major transport accident in four days.

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