LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- At least seven people have been confirmed dead and 27 others hospitalised after a bus driver lost control of a bus carrying football fans on a mountainous road in southeastern Brazil, fire officials said.
France 24 reports that the incident reportedly occurred on a highway near Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state
According to Passengers in an interview with journalists, the driver cried out that he had no brakes shortly before losing control.
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More than 40 fans of the Corinthians football club of Sao Paulo were said to have been passengers on the bus, returning from a match the night before in Belo Horizonte.
Fernando Frois, a lieutenant with the Minas Gerais firefighters, reported the casualty toll but did not say what condition those hospitalised were in.
The country’s National Agency of Land Transportation (ANTT), in a statement, stated that the bus was unregistered and lacked authorization to transport passengers between states.
Clubs from across Brazil, as well as the Brazilian Football Confederation, sent their condolences to the families and friends of the victims.