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At least 48 people have been killed after a coach plummeted 100m (330ft) down a cliff and landed upside down on a beach in Peru, officials say. At least 48 people killed in Peru bus crash

The bus, carrying 57 people in total, was heading for the capital, Lima, when it was struck by a tractor trailer and plunged down the slope onto a rocky beach, firefighter Claudia Espinoza said. ‘From the first moment I arranged all immediate support for the rescue of the victims in this emergency,’ president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski tweeted. The bus was travelling from Huacho, 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of the capital, to Lima with 55 passengers and two crew on board when it went off the road about midday. "Thirty bodies have been recovered and six are trapped," said Colonel Dino Escudero, head of the police highway patrol division. (Vidal Tarky/Andina News Agency via AP)

Traffic accidents are common along Peru's roadways, with more than 2,600 people killed in 2016.
A coach bus plunges off a cliff on a coastal road in Peru, killing at least 48 people.