Twelve university students died and 21 were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Brazil’s southeastern state of Sao Paulo, officials said Friday. “We wake up to the sad news of this tragedy that killed 12 students in a terrible accident involving a bus and a truck,” State Governor Tarcisio Freitas wrote on X.

A bus carrying Brazilian university students collided with a truck late on Thursday, killing 12 people and injuring 19 others near the city of Ribeirao Preto, in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo, firefighters and local media said.

A bus carrying university students and a truck collided on a highway in southeastern Brazil, killing 12 passengers and injuring 21 others.

Local television stations broadcast images from the crash scene showing the bus, its left side completely destroyed in the collision.