Bus crash in Brazil kills 20

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A bus taking college students home from their night courses at a university in southeastern Brazil plummeted from a 160-foot cliff, killing at least 20 people and injuring 21 others, police said Thursday.

The accident occurred late Wednesday on a highway near the city of Rifaina, 280 miles north of Sao Paulo.

Police said 17 students and the driver were dead at the scene, and that two other students died after being hospitalized.

"I saw body parts and blood all over the place," said Donizete Santiago de Araujo, who arrived at the scene minutes after the accident. "It is a horrible feeling to grab the hand of someone you are trying to rescue and have that person die before your eyes."

The Sao Paulo State Highway Police said the bus fell off the cliff after the driver apparently lost control as he approached what local residents call the "curve of death."

All the victims except for the driver were students at the University of Franca.