The driver of a bus that plunged into a ravine in northern Algeria, killing 28 people, was under the influence of drugs and travelling at more than twice the speed limit, prosecutors said after a preliminary investigation.

Tragedy struck Algeria Friday morning after a passenger bus veered off the road and plunged into a ravine near the coastal town of Boumerdes, east of Algiers.

Tragedy struck Algeria Friday morning after a passenger bus veered off the road and plunged into a ravine near the coastal town of Boumerdes, east of Algiers.

A bus accident in Algeria killed at least twenty-five people and injured forty-four others. The vehicle carrying passengers from Setif skidded and plunged into a deep ravine near…

Dozens also injured in accident outside the country's capital Algiers.