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LIMA, Peru - At least 23 people were killed and 13 injured in Peru on Tuesday after a bus crashed while traveling through a mountainous area, the country's interior ministry said on social media.The bus skidded off a highway in Peru 's Andean Ayacucho region at dusk, overturning and plummeting down a slope of about 200 meters, Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, head of the highway protection division, told state news agency Andina.
Peru's ground transportation superintendent SUTRAN said in a statement the bus belongs to local company Turismo Molina Union SAC and that it has initiated an investigation.Company representatives were not immediately available for comment.Deadly bus accidents are common in Peru, where many busses travel on precarious mountain roads or are driven by inadequately trained drivers.
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