RIO DE JANEIRO — Police renewed their search Sunday for more victims in a bus accident in southern Brazil that killed at least 49 people.
The dead include eight young children, three adolescents, 24 women, and 14 men, the government of Santa Catarina state said. The bus plunged 1,300 feet down a mountain near the city of Joinville on Saturday.
Ten people were transferred to nearby hospitals, including two children.
Their conditions were unknown.
Officials said that the death toll could rise because more bodies could be found under the bus and in the woods.
Police officers and emergency personnel started working on removing the bus on Sunday from the mountainous area in Serra Dona Francisca.
The bus crashed on a curvy road that wound through a verdant green region popular for hiking and biking in Santa Catarina state, about 600 miles southwest of Rio de Janeiro.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, although authorities suspect the driver may have lost control on a curve.
The group was traveling from Uniao da Vitoria for a religious event near the coast in Parana state.
Officials at the bus company could not be reached for comment.
Pedro Ivo Ilkiv, the mayor of União da Vitória, a city of about 52,000 that was home to many of the crash victims, declared a period of mourning.