SAO PAULO: At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday (Dec 21), officials said, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a "terrible tragedy". The accident in Minas Gerais state, involving a bus that caught fire in the collision, is the worst seen on Brazil's federal highways since 2007, according to police data cited by local media. In their latest report, civil police confirmed 38 fatalities with eight people hospitalized. Conflicting accounts

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