A bus veered off a road and plunged down an embankment on a steep mountain pass in northern South Africa, killing at least 42 people and leaving another 49 passengers injured, authorities said Monday.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A bus veered off a road and plunged down an embankment on a steep mountain pass in northern South Africa, killing at least 42 people and leaving another 49 passengers injured, authorities said Monday. The crash happened around...

Oct. 13 (UPI) -- At least 42 people, including seven children, were killed after a bus in a northern region of South Africa left the road as it was driving over a steep mountain pass and plunged into a ravine.

Authorities say a bus veered off a road and plunged down an embankment on a steep mountain pass in northern South Africa, killing at least 42 people and injuring another 49.

At least 42 people were killed in a bus crash in a mountainous region of northern South Africa, authorities said Monday. The crash happened Sunday on the N1 highway near the town of Louis Trichardt, around 400 kilometers north of the capital, Pretoria. Simon Zwane, a Road Traffic Management Corporation…