A bus carrying foreign tourists skidded out of control and crashed on a rainy night outside Peru's ancient Inca city of Cuzco, killing at least 13 people, police said today.
Authorities, still trying to identify the victims and their nationalities, said at least one American and two Chileans were among the dead from Tuesday's crash.
The injured included US, British, Portuguese and Bolivian tourists.
The inter-provincial bus hit a parked truck as it was leaving the southern Peruvian city, gateway to the Inca citadel Machu Picchu, one of the country's most popular tourist sites.
Police said the truck had been badly parked on the road, but the cause of the accident was not immediately known. Hundreds of people die in bus crashes every year in Peru because of poorly maintained vehicles, dangerously rutted roads and harsh weather.
