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At least 20 dead in Peru bus fire: emergency services

Police stand around the charred remains of a bus that caught fire in Lima killing 20 people. [AFP]

At least 20 people were killed and about a dozen injured Sunday night in a bus fire at a Peruvian transport terminal, the emergency services said.

A number of the victims died trapped on the second level of the interprovincial bus in the capital Lima, firefighters said, and passersby described scenes of panic and cries of terror.

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