At least 23 people died after a bus fell down a slope into a river on Sunday evening in the Andean mountains of northern Peru, a prosecutor told local media on Monday morning.

At least 25 people are dead after a bus fell down a slope into a river in Peru. -AP A bus crash in the Andean mountains of northern Peru has killed 25 people and injured 13 more, officials say. Russian officials say Ukraine had attacked Crimea with US-produced Army Tactical Missile Systems in an attempt to pierce Russian air defences of the annexed peninsula but that six were shot down.

A local official on Monday said the incident happened on a dirt road in the Andean region of Cajamarca 'and the bus fell into an abyss' The Celendin municipality declared 48 hours of mourning as dozens gathered at a police station near the accident site,

A bus crash on the outskirts of Mexico City killed 18 people on Sunday, while another 32 were injured, according to the state of Mexico's civil protection agency.

At least 23 people died and more than a dozen were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine from a mountain road in northern Peru, local authorities said Monday.