Death toll rises to 16 in Peru's Andean bus crash

Peru authorities said, at least 16 people were killed on Tuesday in Peru when a bus rolled off a ledge in the mountainous Ayacucho region.

The bus was carrying more than 40 passengers high in the Andes, where such tragedies are not uncommon. Officials said that 13 bodies had already been recovered and three more had yet to be retrieved from under the bus. Bad weather including falling hail was delaying the recovery of the remaining bodies, he added.