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At least 48 people died when a bus tumbled down a cliff onto a rocky beach Tuesday along a narrow stretch of highway known as the “Devil’s Curve,” Peruvian police and fire officials said.
The bus carrying 57 people was headed to Peru’s capital when it was struck by a tractor trailer soon before noon and plunged down the slope, said Claudia Espinoza with Peru’s voluntary firefighter brigade.
The blue bus came to rest upside down on a strip of shore next to the Pacific, the lifeless bodies of passengers strewn among the rocks.


“It’s very sad for us as a country to suffer an accident of this magnitude,” Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said in a statement.
Rescuers had to struggle to rescue survivors and recover the dead from the hard-to-reach area in Pasamayo, about 70 kilometres north of Lima.
No road leads directly to the beach, complicating rescue efforts, Espinoza said. Police and firefighters used helicopters to transport six survivors with serious injuries to nearby hospitals.
Colonel Dino Escudero said 48 people were confirmed dead and at least three were missing.
Transportation Minister Bruno Giuffra said initial reports indicated both vehicles involved were travelling at a high rate of speed at the time of the crash.
As rescue operations continued late into the night, authorities announced a suspect had been detained for allegedly robbing belongings of victims.


Traffic accidents are common along Peru’s roadways, with more than 2,600 people killed in 2016. More than three dozen died when three buses and a truck collided in 2015 on the main costal highway. Twenty people were killed in November when a bus plunged off a bridge into a river in the southern Andes.
The nation’s deadliest traffic crash on record happened in 2013 when a makeshift bus carrying 51 Quechua Indians back from a party in southeastern Peru fell off a cliff into a river, killing everyone on board.
Espinoza said the passengers in Tuesday’s crash included many returning to Lima after celebrating the New Year’s holiday with family outside the city.

The highway is known as the “Devil’s Curve” because it is narrow, frequently shrouded in mist and curves along a cliff that has seen numerous accidents. Police said the bus fell an estimated 80 metres.
Miguel Sidia, a transport expert in Peru, said that while road conditions in the Andean nation have improved in recent years, lack of driver education and little enforcement of road rules still lead to many fatalities each year.
He called on authorities to immediately conduct studies into building a new highway farther from the cliff where the accident occurred.
“As a Peruvian, it’s shameful,” he said.


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48 dead after bus plunges off ‘Devil’s Curve’ in Peru, leaving bodies strewn across shore

Rescue personnel work at the site of a bus accident in Pasamayo, north of Lima on Tuesday. Photo: Xinhua

(180102) -- PASAMAYO (PERU), Jan. 2, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Rescue personnel work at the site of a bus accident in Pasamayo, north of Lima, capital of Peru, on Jan. 2, 2018. At least 25 people were killed near Peru's capital on Tuesday when their bus plummeted 400 meters off a highway and into a gorge, the Highway Police (POLCAR) said. (Xinhua/ANDINA/Vidal Tarqui)

In this photo provided by the government news agency Andina, an injured man is transported over water from a bus that fell off a cliff after it was hit by a tractor-trailer rig, in Pasamayo, Peru, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. A Peruvian police official says at least 25 people died, and that there were more than 50 people on the bus. (Vidal Tarky, Andina News Agency via AP)

(180102) -- PASAMAYO (PERU), Jan. 2, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Rescue personnel transfer an injured person of a bus accident in Pasamayo, north of Lima, capital of Peru, on Jan. 2, 2018. At least 25 people were killed near Peru's capital on Tuesday when their bus plummeted 400 meters off a highway and into a gorge, the Highway Police (POLCAR) said. (Xinhua/ANDINA/Vidal Tarqui) ***MADE QUALITY AVAILABLE***

In this photo provided by the government news agency Andina, rescue workers surround an injured man on a stretcher who was lifted up from the site of a bus crash at the bottom of a cliff, after the bus was hit by a tractor-trailer rig in Pasamayo, Peru, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. A Peruvian police official says at least 25 people died, and that there were more than 50 people on the bus. (Vidal Tarky, Andina News Agency via AP)

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Rescuers work at the site of a bus accident in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 14, 2017. Photo: Xinhua

(170214) -- TAIPEI, Feb. 14, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers work at the site of a bus accident in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 14, 2017. At least 32 people were killed after a tour bus overturned on a highway in Taipei on Monday evening, according to local authorities. There were no tourists from the Chinese mainland or foreign countries on the bus, local police said. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu) (wyo)

(170214) -- TAIPEI, Feb. 14, 2017 (Xinhua) -- A rescuer works at the site of a bus accident in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 14, 2017. At least 32 people were killed after a tour bus overturned on a highway in Taipei on Monday evening, according to local authorities. There were no tourists from the Chinese mainland or foreign countries on the bus, local police said. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu) (wyo)

(170214) -- TAIPEI, Feb. 14, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers work at the site of a bus accident in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 13, 2017. At least 32 people were killed after a tour bus overturned on a highway in Taipei on Monday evening, according to local authorities. There were no tourists from the Chinese mainland or foreign countries on the bus, local police said. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu) (wyo)

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Chinese Malaysian tourists among 13 dead in bus crash in northern Thailand

epa05076133 Injured Malaysian tourists wait for medical treatment next to a Thai police officer after a tourist bus crashed on a mountain roadside of Doi Saket district, Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, 20 December 2015. A tourist bus carrying Chinese-Malaysian tourists crashed into a roadside on mountainous path killing at least 13 people and injured 12 of them, police said. EPA/STR

(151220) -- BANGKOK, Dec. 20, 2015 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers work at the bus crash site in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Dec. 20, 2015. A tour bus carrying 25 people crashed in northern Thailand's Chiang Mai Province on Sunday morning, killing 13 people, including 12 Malaysian tourists and one Thai tour guide, the Chinese Consulate General in Chiang Mai said. (Xinhua)

epa05076134 Thai rescue workers remove bodies and injuring Malaysian passengers from the wreckage of a tourist bus after it crashed on a mountain roadside of Doi Saket district, Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, 20 December 2015. A tourist bus carrying Chinese-Malaysian tourists crashed into a roadside on mountainous path killing at least 13 people and injured 12 of them, police said. EPA/STR

Injured Malaysian tourists wait for medical treatment after their tourist bus crashed near Chiang Mai. Photo: EPA

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The highway is known as the ‘Devil’s Curve’ because it is narrow, frequently shrouded in mist and curves along a cliff that has seen numerous accidents


48 dead after bus plunges off ‘Devil’s Curve’ in Peru, leaving bodies strewn across shore

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The highway is known as the ‘Devil’s Curve’ because it is narrow, frequently shrouded in mist and curves along a cliff that has seen numerous accidents

The highway is known as the ‘Devil’s Curve’ because it is narrow, frequently shrouded in mist and curves along a cliff that has seen numerous accidents