At least 24 Tunisians killed and 18 more injured when a bus plunged off a cliff into a ravine in the country's north, officials say
Tunisian security forces check the debris of a bus that plunged over a cliff into a ravine, in Ain Snoussi in northern Tunisia on December 1, 2019.
Twenty-four people were killed and 18 injured, the victims aged between 20 and 30, said the health ministry, releasing updated information on the tragedy.The bus with 43 people on board was travelling through the Ain Snoussi region when it plunged over the cliff, the interior ministry said. Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi told a private radio station Mosaique FM that the "unfortunate accident took place in a difficult area" and just after the bus had taken a "sharp bend".
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