A bus carrying Ecuadoran football fans plunged into a ravine Saturday while heading home from a Copa Libertadores game in Peru , killing at least eight , authorities said .

The bus , which had left from Lima , fell 15 meters ( 50 feet ) from a stretch of the Panamerican Highway in northern Peru , police said .

The number of injured was not immediately disclosed.

The bus was carrying supporters of a team called Barcelona de Guayaquil, which played the Peruvian side Sporting Cristal on Thursday in Lima .

Peru ’ s highways are notoriously hazardous because of their many dangerous curves , poor maintenance , insufficient signage, drivers that speed and scanty police presence .

Traffic accidents on those roads claim an average of nine lives a day , according to government figures .

That is more than the number of fatalities from street crime , even though the latter ranks first in polls of what Peruvians are most concerned about .

Source:- AFP