At least 18 people died and 33 were injured in Panama on Sunday when a bus veered off a highway and flipped into a ravine and then a river, the authorities said. 

Civil Defence officer Jose Donderis said the bus headed from the Bocas del Toro province on the Caribbean Sea to a ranch in Chame - a town on the Pacific Ocean some seven hours away - crashed near Cienaga Vieja in Anton, Cocle province, southwest of Panama City, around 1900 GMT.--AFP

Source : NNA