At least 16 Colombian high school students – aged 16 to 18 – and a driver were killed Sunday when their bus plunged into a ravine in the northwest of the country.
The students from a school in Bello, near Medellin, were celebrating their graduation and traveling from a Caribbean beach on Colombia's coast.
Some 21 more were injured in the 40-meter plummet and a source in the Bello mayor's office told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that officials were still working to determine how many of the victims were minors.
Antioquia Department Gov. Andres Julian Rendon told the media the cause of the accident remained under investigation.
In a video Rendon posted to social media, one of the survivors said, "I was asleep and all of a sudden I heard screams, and from that moment on I don't remember anything."
