La Delicia:
A bus ran off a highway in Ecuador and overturned killing at least 36 people, officials said on Sunday. At least 12 others were badly hurt.
The bus was on a straight, well-paved strip of highway about 95 kilometres south of its destination, Quito, when the accident occurred at 3.20 am (0820 GMT) in La Delicia, police said.
A transit police spokesman said it appeared the driver fell asleep, though the cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Police said that driver who died in the accident had been at the wheel for at least seven hours.
Silvia Zumba of the Latacunga police department said the bus from the Turismo Oriental line had left the city of Cuenca with about 30 passengers and had picked up others along the way.