Six passengers killed in bus crash in southeastern Brazil, 45 injured

Six passengers were killed on Monday in a bus crash on a federal highway in southeastern Brazil, federal and Sao Paulo state officials said, and another 45 injured people were sent to local hospitals for medical treatment.
The crash, on the BR-153 federal highway, occurred early in the day near the city of Marilia, Sao Paulo state firefighters said in a post on X. The condition of the injured passengers was not immediately disclosed.
Brazil’s federal highway police said in a statement that the bus was carrying farm workers from the northeastern Maranhao state to the southern Santa Catarina state to harvest apples.