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At
least 50 injured in traffic
accident in Brazil
At least 50 people were injured
in southeastern Brazil on
Wednesday, when a coach was in
collision with two other
vehicles.
The coach was travelling along a
main access road when it was in
collision with a car and a bus.
The three vehicles were all
traveling in the same direction.
The accident on Brasil Avenue,
which leads to the center of the
port city of Rio de Janeiro,
also caused serious traffic jams
in the Iraja neighborhood and 15
ambulances attended the
incident.
Colonel Hugo Figueiredo, the
head of the Fire Brigade's
operations center, was unable to
give the media the exact number
of injured as some of them had
left the scene in private cars.
One of the most seriously
wounded people, who suffered
serious leg injuries, was sent
to hospital by a helicopter
after rescuers pulled him out of
the wreckage.
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