Rio de Janeiro—Seventeen people died Sunday when a bus on a remote mountain road in Brazil’s northeastern Alagoas state dived into a ravine, regional authorities said.

Police were working to identify those killed and to free bodies from the wreckage of the bus, which fell into a ravine more than 20 meters (65 feet) deep, the state government said in a statement.

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