At least 44 dead as bus veers off cliff

Updated February 22 2018 - 7:56am, first published 4:17am
The wreckage of the bus lays at the bottom of a cliff in Arequipa, Peru.
The wreckage of the bus lays at the bottom of a cliff in Arequipa, Peru.

A double-decker bus has run off the Panamerican Highway and tumbled 200 metres down a cliff in southern Peru, and officials say at least 44 people have died.

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