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16 killed in Ecuador bus crash

  •   Sun, Mar 17 2013 09:32:10 AM

Buenos Aires, Mar 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti): At least 16 people were killed and 25 others injured when a passenger bus plunged into a river in Ecuador's coastal province of Guayas.

Ecuadorian daily La-Hora said the accident occurred Saturday on the El Triunfo-Bucay highway.

The bus suddenly crashed into a side-rail of a bridge and then plunged into a river.

Passengers of the bus were mostly manufacturers and traders of jeans clothing from the province of Tungurahua and were en route to a handicrafts fair in the town of Guayaquil.

Authorities launched an investigation into the bus crash.

Witnesses said poor weather conditions and heavy rain could be blamed for the tragic accident.
  

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