Papua New Guinea bus crash 'kills 24' 4 April 2013 Last updated at 06:22 A bus crash in Papua New Guinea has left at least 24 people dead, local media report. The bus was said to have fallen off a cliff in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands, and plunged over 50m into a river bed. 17 men, six women and a five-year-old girl are thought to be among the dead. The group was said to be travelling from Baiyer district to Mount Hagen to pick up the coffin of a villager who had died. A local police commander described the crash as the country's "worst road accident involving a public motor vehicle," The National newspaper reported. A local ward councillor, Kuri Rani, told The National newspaper that the victims were from Baiyer's Epika tribe. "It's a big loss to the rest of my tribesmen," he said. We were all travelling into town to pick up a casket and didn't know such a thing would happen.