Almost 40 people are dead after a passenger bus collided with another vehicle in Arequipa, Peru. Photo: AP PHOTO

A passenger bus has fallen into a deep ravine after colliding with another vehicle in southern Peru, killing at least 37 people and injuring 13 more.

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The health manager of the Arequipa region, Walther Oporto, said to local radio RPP that the bus hit a pickup truck and it went off a road on a curve, falling more than 200 metres to the banks of the Ocoña river.

The bus had departed from the city of Chala, a mining area also in southern Peru, and was heading to the city of

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