55 killed in Guatemala bus accident

GUATEMALA CITY — At least 55 people were killed in Guatemala on Monday when a bus crashed through a guardrail and plunged into a ravine, authorities said, in one of the worst road accidents in Latin America in years.

The bus was carrying around 70 people when it fell into a river contaminated with sewage in Guatemala City, making it difficult for rescuers to retrieve the bodies.

"So far, 53 people have died at the scene," a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office, Moises Ortiz, told reporters.