MENDOZA, Argentina: A bus overturned in Argentina on Saturday near Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, killing at least 19 people and leaving 20 injured, officials said. Operated by the Chilean company Turbus, the bus was traveling from the province of Mendoza toward Chile with 40 people on board when the accident occurred in the Andes region, more than 1,000 kilometers from Buenos Aires.

"Sixteen people died on the scene and another three in the hospital," Oscar Sagas, health undersecretary for the province, told the local news network Siete de Mendoza.

The province’s attorney general, Alejandro Gulle, said that the two Chilean bus drivers, who survived the crash, were held for questioning in the town of Uspallata, a tourist spot near Aconcagua, which at 6,960 meters is the tallest peak outside the Himalayas.

The authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred in the afternoon under good weather conditions and on a well-maintained major road between Argentina and Chile.

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A bus traveling to Chile flipped over in Argentina’s Mendoza province early on Saturday, killing at least 19 people on a remote mountain road in the Andes, local authorities said.

Turbus, the Chilean company operating the vehicle, confirmed the crash on Route 7 in the Aconcagua park in a statement. It gave no casualty figures and said it did not know why the bus turned over.

A civil defense spokesman in Mendoza said there were 19 confirmed deaths.

The bus had 40 passengers of whom 32 were Argentineans, including three children, Turbus said. The company said it was working to find out the identities of the victims. </s> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Officials say a bus carrying a group of retirees has overturned on a foggy road in northern Argentina, killing at least 13 passengers and leaving 40 injured.

La Madrid town representative Dardo Herrera tells the Todo Noticias television channel that the accident occurred early Monday at a dangerous intersection near his town in Tucuman province. </s> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Officials say a bus carrying a group of retirees has overturned on a foggy road in northern Argentina, killing at least 13 passengers and leaving 40 injured.

La Madrid town representative Dardo Herrera tells the Todo Noticias television channel that the accident occurred early Monday at a dangerous intersection near his town in Tucuman province.

The retirees were accompanied by younger passengers and it wasn't immediately clear how many of the victims were elderly.

The bus had left from the city of Mendoza en route to Termas de Rio Hondo, a spa known for its thermal waters. </s> MENDOZA, Argentina: A bus overturned in Argentina on Saturday near Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, killing at least 19 people and leaving 20 injured, officials said.



Operated by the Chilean company Turbus, the bus was traveling from the province of Mendoza toward Chile with 40 people on board when the accident occurred in the Andes region, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from Buenos Aires.

“Sixteen people died on the scene and another three in the hospital,” Oscar Sagas, health undersecretary for the province, told the local news network Siete de Mendoza.

The province’s attorney general, Alejandro Gulle, said that the two Chilean bus drivers, who survived the crash, were held for questioning in the town of Uspallata, a tourist spot near Aconcagua, which at 6,960 meters (22,835 feet) is the tallest peak outside the Himalayas.

The authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred in the afternoon under good weather conditions and on a well-maintained major road between Argentina and Chile.

According to Turbus, the 40 passengers included 32 Argentinians — three of them children — four Chileans, one Colombian and a Haitian.

The accident happened on Route 7 near Los Horcones, in a spot called the Curva de Yeso, between the Aconcagua Provincial Park close to the border with Chile.

“It’s a curve that is fairly complicated because of a climb and then a drop,” Sagas said. Citing witnesses, he said the driver lost control of the bus, which then veered off the road.

One of the children remains in serious condition, and two adults underwent amputations of their left arms due to severe spinal injuries, a medical person at Hospital Central told channel Siete. </s> At least 32 people were killed when their bus plunged into a ravine in Carranglan, Nueva Ecija province, on Tuesday in one of the country’s deadliest road accidents in recent years, police said.

Initial reports said the driver failed to stop the bus because of malfunctioning brakes, but investigators later saw that one of its front tires had burst, which could have caused the vehicle to fall into the 24-meter ravine, according to Senior Insp. Robert de Guzman, Carranglan police chief.

De Guzman said the Leomarick Bus was traveling from Isabela province to Ilocos Sur province when the crash happened around noon.

Ian Fernandez, one of the survivors, said the engine stopped moments after the bus drove down the Cagayan Valley-Nueva Ecija Highway, a few kilometers from Dalton Pass at the boundary of Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya provinces.

Fernandez, 31, who was traveling with his wife and daughter, said he jumped out of the bus as it fell off the road. His wife and daughter were injured and taken to a hospital in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.

Nearly all the dead, including the driver, and injured were taken to health centers and hospitals in Sta. Fe, Aritao, Bambang and Bayombong towns in Nueva Vizcaya.

The Red Cross chapter of Nueva Vizcaya listed 29 fatalities but the police had 32.

Senior Insp. Ariel Gabuya of the Sta. Fe police office in Nueva Vizcaya, whose officers were first to arrive at the scene, said 11 died on the spot. He said 14 others died at the Nueva Vizcaya provincial hospital in Bambang, six in a hospital and a health center in Aritao, and one at San Jose City hospital in Nueva Ecija.

Gabuya said at least 38 others were taken to separate hospitals for treatment of various injuries.

A farmer near the bottom of the ravine heard a deafening sound from the highway and people screaming for help as the bus plunged.

“I saw this giant object hurtling down toward me,” said Pancito Agcrio, 59, who was tending a garden about 20 meters from where the bus landed.

“Most of the passengers suffered broken wrists. Some I saw crawling out of the bus. I learned they died later,” he said. “It was heartbreaking. The crash site was littered with dead people. And the people who were alive were crying. They couldn’t walk.”

Rescuers who descended into the deep ravine struggled with ropes to pluck the passengers from the wreckage, disaster response officer Mark Raymond Cano told The Associated Press.

Many of the survivors who were taken to a hospital had serious injuries, Cano said.

Some motorists who were just passing by stopped to help police, firemen and other rescue workers.

One of them, Ruben Angobung, municipal registrar of Tumauini, Isabela, said he was stunned by the scene and hopped out of his vehicle to help pull the ropes to retrieve the bodies.

The impact of the crash appeared to have ripped the top off the vehicle, De Guzman told the French news agency Agence France-Presse.

“Almost all of the passengers, both dead and injured, were found outside the bus,” he said.

Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella expressed Malacañang’s “deep condolences” to the families of the victims.

“We guarantee that the culprits behind the fatal bus mishap will be held accountable,” he added.

Fernandez said the bus, which was designed for 45 people, carried as many as 70 passengers, with some sitting on the laps of their companions.

Poorly maintained passenger buses, inadequate road safety features and weak enforcement of local transport laws have been blamed for many vehicular accidents.

In February, a sightseeing bus carrying college students on a camping trip lost its brakes on a steep downhill road and smashed into a concrete electrical post in Tanay, Rizal province, east of Manila, leaving 15 people dead.

In February 2014, a tour bus rolled off a mountain road into a ravine in Bontoc, Mountain Province, killing 14 passengers, including two foreigners. —WITH REPORTS FROM LEILA B. SALAVERRIA, VILLAMOR VISAYA JR., AP AND AFP </s> Cuba bus crash: At least five people have died in a crash in eastern Cuba

Cuban media reports the bus rolled after the driver attempted to overtake another vehicle on the wet and windy road. Twenty-two tourists from the UK, France, Holland, Mexico and Canada were among those onboard, according to state media. Officials have yet to release the names and nationalities of those who died.

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Local media reports around 30 people were taken to hospital after the crash.

Today’s crash is the fourth accident involving a bus in less than a month on Cuba’s roads, according to Cuban news site 14ymedio.

On December 27, two people were killed and 33 injured when a lorry towing a trailer loaded with cane collided with a bus.

Just two weeks earlier, another crash involving a bus left three dead and 29 injured in the vicinity of Mayari, in the province of Holguin. </s> An overcrowded minibus crashed into a gorge in Kashmir valley on Monday, killing at least 31 people and injuring another 7, officials said.

The bus plunged off the Himalayan mountain road as its driver negotiated a curve and rolled down into a 150-meter (500-foot) deep gorge along a rocky stream, said civil administrator Angrez Singh Rana. He said officials were investigating whether it was a mechanical failure or driver's negligence.

Top police officer M.K Sinha said the bus hit the rocks and was torn apart in several pieces. He said the 27-seat bus was overcrowded.

Rescue teams have evacuated seven injured to hospitals, where all of them are in critical condition.

On Thursday, a minibus carrying students to a picnic crashed into a gorge along another Himalayan road in Kashmir, killing at least 11 and injuring seven others.

India has the world's deadliest roads, with about 150,000 killed and 470,000 injured annually. Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and old vehicles.

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Video: 35 killed, several others injured as bus rolls down gorge in Kishtwar </s> GUANTANAMO, Cuba. - Seven people were killed and 33 were injured after the driver of a bus lost control on a wet and windy road in Cuba, Cuban media reported Friday.

The crash happened Thursday afternoon at Kilometer 25 along the Guantanamo-Baracoa roadway in the Cuban province of Guantanamo.

Among the dead are three Cubans, two Argentines, a French and a German passenger.

Of the 33 injured, two are children. As of Friday morning, five people remained in critical condition.

A total of 40 passengers were onboard the bus, including 22 foreigners from Holland, England, France, Mexico and Canada.

According to Radio Guantanamo, the driver of the state-run bus company, Humberto Vladimir Lopez Creme, assured reporters he was not speeding when the single vehicle crash happened.

But according to Cuban media reports, witnesses said the driver tried to pass a smaller car but saw a truck coming and tried to get back in the lane, then lost control.

Below is a list of victims killed in the bus crash:

Alexander Castillo Perez, 32, of Maisi 

 Antonio Joler Perez, 47, of Maisi 

 Yanet de Los Ángeles Santana Ordunez, 34, of Baracoa 

 Roxana Lauseda Gomez, 35, of Argentina

 Annegret Frieda Gohike, 59, of Germany 

 Patrick Demer Tesseran, 67, of France

 Nadis Carolina Flores, 35, of Argentina
At least 16 people are killed and 45 injured when a bus rolls over on a road in Tucumán Province, Argentina.