El Salvador river sweeps bus off bridge, killing 29

Rescue crews recovered 29 bodies Friday from a raging, rain-fed river that swept a bus carrying members of an evangelical church off a bridge in El Salvador's capital, reports the Associated Press.

Crews were still looking for at least one other person believed to have been aboard the bus when it was carried away by the Acelhuate river in southern San Salvador Thursday night, said Raul Murillo, spokesman for the national civil protection service.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

Photo: Salvadoran rescue workers recover the body of one of at least 29 30 victims after a bus disaster in San Salvador. Flooding swept the bus off a bridge and into the waters of the Acelhuate River. Credit: Robert Escobar / EPA