Double-decker bus crash kills 24

Twenty-four people were killed in South Africa on Friday when a double-decker bus carrying a church group crashed in a mountainous pass near Cape Town. Rescue teams had to use a crane to lift the bus and cut away bodywork to extract victims trapped in the overturned wreckage in the Hex River pass. "Twenty-three died on the scene and one person on the way to hospital," said Faiza Steyn, Western Cape health spokeswoman. Two of the dead were children. Forty-five injured people were taken to hospital.