SAD: Four Dead, 29 Injured In Football Team Crash
Four die and 29 are injured as a bus carrying a youth football team back from winning a tournament plunges 32ft off a bridge in Brazil after the driver ‘lost control’
Four people have died after a bus carrying the Esporte Clube Vila Maria Helena football team plunged 32 feet from a bridge in Brazil.
Another 29 people were injured in the horror crash in Além Paraíba in the state of Minas Gerais in the south-east of the country.
Victims include three teenagers, aged between 14 and 17, and one adult, Brazilian website G1 reported.
The bus driver lost control while crossing the bridge on the BR-116 and the vehicle fell upside down into a creek.
The football team was travelling back to their city of Duque de Caxias from Ubaporanga, where they were playing against Simonesia in a tournament.
24 of the injured were taken to the Hospital Sao Salvador, while another five received treatment at the Casa de Caridade Leopoldinense in Leopoldina.
The Hospital Sao Salvador reported one of those treated was 19 and others were under-18.-#DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
