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Brazil: Logs of trees fell from a truck into a car – Four dead

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The load flattened and crushed a car belonging to the office of the mayor of the neighboring city of Ortigeira, which was carrying five people. Four of them died instantly and one was injured and taken to a hospital.

Four people were killed and another injured when tree trunks fell from a truck and crushed a car in the southern Brazilian state of Parana.

The accident occurred yesterday Monday on the BR376 highway, near the town of Tibazi, when the driver of the lorry transporting tree logs on behalf of the Klabin paper mill attempted a sharp maneuver to avoid a head-on collision with another car, resulting in his vehicle overturning, according to police representative.

The load flattened and crushed a car belonging to the office of the mayor of the neighboring city of Ortigeira, which was carrying five people. Four of them died instantly and one was injured and taken to a hospital.

The driver of the truck got out of his vehicle unharmed, as reported by Brazilian television.

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