Paraná road tragedy leaves 23 dead in bus-lorry collision
A head-on collision on BR-373 in Paraná, Brazil, killed 23 people including two children and injured five when a health-authority minibus collided with a lorry; the minibus was carrying patients and relatives to appointments in Ponta Grossa about 60 km away. The highway was closed for about seven hours while investigators probed the crash. Brazil suffers high road-death rates, with World Bank data showing around 34,000 deaths in 2023, often tied to speeding, drunken driving, and mobile-phone use.