Sao Paulo: A tourist bus plunged 400 metres into a ravine in Santa Catarina province of Brazil claiming 50 lives, police said on Sunday. The victims of Saturday's bus crash comprised eight children, three adolescents, 24 women and 15 men.

Ten people were being treated at nearby hospitals, Xinhua reported citing police. The toll was initially been put at 32, and then raised to 43 but the number rose throughout the night as rescuers continued to find bodies at the difficult-to-access crash site in Santa Catarina of southern Brazil.