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Indonesia bus plunge kills 2 dozen pilgrims

Indonesia bus plunge kills 2 dozen pilgrims

Agence France-Presse

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Rescue personnel work at the crash site after a bus fell into a ravine in Sumedang, West Java Province, Indonesia, March 10, 2021. Raisan Al Farisi, Antara Foto/Reuters

JAKARTA - A bus carrying dozens of pilgrims plunged down a steep ravine on Indonesia's Java island, killing at least 27 people including junior high school students, authorities said Thursday.

Rescuers worked through the night using cranes to pluck injured survivors from the wreckage after the fatal crash late Wednesday in West Java's Sumedang district.

The bus carrying 66 passengers was traveling on a winding, poorly lit road when it plunged down the 20-meter (65 foot) ravine, authorities said.

The driver and teenage passengers were among the dead, while 39 survived the accident.

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"The fatalities are a mix of children and adults," Bandung rescue agency official Mamang Fatmono told AFP.

Authorities said they were probing the accident's cause.

The bus was returning to the town of Subang from a religious pilgrimage site in West Java.

Traffic accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago, where vehicles are often old and poorly maintained and road rules regularly flouted.

In late 2019, at least 35 people were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine on the island of Sumatra.

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