Bus plunges into river killing 43 in Argentina

At least 43 people died in rural northern area of Argentina on Monday after a bus carrying Argentine frontier police plunged into a river, a spokeswoman for the provincial governors office said.

Authorities say 51 people were in the bus which was part of a three-bus convoy. The bus plunged into the Balboa River near the northern Argentina city of Rosario de la Frontera, roughly 1,160 kilometers (720 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires.

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An official in the office of the governor of Salta province, Lucía Mallozi, said that eight people were hospitalised after the incident.
Two were flown by helicopter to a hospital in the city of Salta, Mallozi said. The remaining six were being treated at a hospital in Rosario de la Frontera and their injuries were not considered critical, according to Mallozi.

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