The bus was carrying students from the University of Franca, known as Unifran, media reports said. The university's athletic association released a statement on Instagram expressing solidarity with the victims' friends and families.
State firefighters said on social media that first responders attended to 31 victims at the scene, including the 12 students who died.
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