Authorities announced Thursday that a bus fell off a road into a ravine in northern Peru, killing at least 20 people, including a four-year-old girl, and injuring another 30.
According to the local administration, the bus rolled down a 100-meter (328-foot) slope in the rural northern Libertad region on Wednesday afternoon.
Due to the remoteness of the area, news of the incident took hours to spread.
Due to the bad state of the roads, the bus was travelling from Tayabamba to Trujillo, a 340-kilometre (211-mile) journey that took 14 hours to complete.
Poor roads, high speeds, a lack of signage, and a lack of enforcement of rules by authorities are all factors that contribute to frequent traffic accidents in Peru.
A minibus left the road in the north Peruvian forest in November, killing ten people.
