Bus crash in Argentina kills dozens of police officers

(Vatican Radio) More than 40 police officers have died and more than 20 others were seriously injured, after a bus carrying them veered off a bridge and plunged down 20 metres into a ravine in northern Argentina.

Listen to the report by correspondent James Blears: 

The accident happened near the city of Rosario Del Fuente in the Province of Salta, fifteen hundred kilometres to the north of the Capital Buenos Aires. An investigation is underway.