Brazil: A bus carrying a soccer team fell from a bridge and four people died

Four people died, including three teenagers between 14 and 17 years old, and 29 others were injured in the accident of a bus carrying a youth soccer team in central-eastern Brazil.The incident occurred when the vehicle that mobilized the amateur team Esporte Clube Vila Maria Elena collapsed by a bridge about ten meters high that crosses the Angu River, in the municipality of Além Paraíba, in Minas Gerais, the authorities of that Brazilian state indicated. Inside the bus were 33 people: 28 teenagers, four adults from the club’s board of directors and the driver, whose age and sex were not specified, it was reported from the intervening fire department. The people who survived were injured and were taken to the hospital in Sao Salvador, in Alem Paraíba, the firefighters added, without specifying their condition. The sports institution suspended all its activities planned for this week and declared seven days of mourning, local media reported. The Vila Maria Elena squad, an amateur team from the city of Duque de Caxias, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro (southeast), was returning from a tournament played in the prefecture of Ubaporanga, in Minas Gerais, when the tragic accident happened on BR 116, one of the two main roads in Brazil. A football competition that brings together youth teams of various categories. He was champion in the U-18 competition and runner-up in the U-15, the organizer of the event told the sports news portal Globo Esporte.

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