Argentina: 12 killed, 28 injured as two buses collide, fall into a ditch

Twelve people were killed and 28 injured when two buses collided head-on in eastern Argentina on Friday, the emergency services sai.

Twelve people were killed and 28 injured when two buses collided head-on in eastern Argentina on Friday, the emergency services said.

Photo released by Agencia Rosario via Noticias Argentinas shows two buses after they crashed at the national route 33 in Perez, Santa Fe province, Buenos Aires. (AFP Photo)

The buses were full of passengers when they collided and crashed into a ditch near the city of Rosario, civil defence official Marcos Escajadillo told television channel C5N.

He said investigators had yet to establish the cause of the crash.