(MENAFN) Over 24 people have died and another 19 have been injured after a bus crashed with another vehicle at high speed and overturned on a highway near Ecuador's capital.
According to Ecuadorian authorities, the Colombian-registered bus was travelling to Quito when it hit a smaller vehicle in an area known as dead man's curve.
A small fleet of ambulances and emergency workers rushed to the crash site about two hours from Quito before dawn.
The team found the severely wrecked bus overturned and several homes nearby to the highway damaged and strewn with metal debris.
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