Details of the accident were not disclosed, but local media reported that the bus had overturned on a cliff in the region. Alagoas Governor Paulo Dantas decreed three days of mourning for those who perished.

Authorities in Brazil revised to 17 the number of people killed in a bus crash in the country's northeastern Alagoas state on Sunday, down from a previous figure they had given of 23.

Twenty-three people died Sunday when a bus on a remote mountain road in Brazil’s Alagoas state dived into a ravine, regional authorities said. Rescue services confirmed that 22 died at the scene and another person — a pregnant woman — succumbed after being taken to hospital,