Argentina Bus Crash Leaving 42 Policemen Dead...Details

At least 42 police officers have been killed after a bus drove off a cliff in Argentina, it's been reported.
The bus was travelling in a convoy of three coaches carrying gendarmes officers when the driver lost control and plunged 65ft into a ravine, authorities said.
The vehicle was crossing a bridge when it flipped and crashed down into a ravine in the northern province of Salta at 02:00 local time (05:00 GMT).Nine people were rescued and are being treated in hospital.
Passengers on the other two buses were the first people on site to attempt to save the officers trapped in the wreckage, officials said.
"We have 42 dead so far," provincial emergency official Francisco Marinaro told local television said in an interview from the scene, where an overturned bus was shown, swarmed with emergency workers.

A statement issued by the National Gendarmerie, a special police force typically charged with patrolling frontier regions, said: "For reasons that are still unknown, the bus lost control while entering the bridge and fell into the creek bed below."

Angel Marinaro, civil defense director for the province, told local station TN that for unknown reasons the driver of one of the buses lost control as the convoy was crossing a bridge.
Gustavo Diaz, head of a group of volunteer firefighters in the area, told Argentine state agency Telam that 20 police were severely injured and were being treated in area hospitals.
The group was heading to the province of Jujuy, the country's most northern region that borders Bolivia.
The government announced that security minister Patricia Bullrich and National Gendarmerie director Omar Ariel Kannemann were travelling to the scene.
Gustavo Solis, mayor of Rosario de la Frontera in the province, told the Tribune the death toll could rise.
He added that the road where the accident happened is known to be in poor condition.He told
the newspaper: “Those of us who know the area try to avoid driving at night."

Authorities say the bus was carrying about 60 people, and survivors are being taken to a nearby hospital.
Investigators are working to establish the cause of the accident.
President Mauricio Macri, elected last month on a platform that included improving Argentina's rural roads, sent his condolences to families of the victims of the crash as he begins his first full week in office.
"We need to improve our highways so these things don't keep happening," he told reporters on the sidelines of a news conference in Buenos Aires province.
Border security has become a hot issue in Argentina as the country has emerged as part of a route used for smuggling Andean cocaine to Europe and for human traffickers sending Syrian refugees to the Western Hemisphere.

Source: Mirror Online