Twenty-four people have been killed and two others critically injured after a bus rolled off a cliff face in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands Province.
The group was travelling from Baiyer to Mt Hagen to pick up the coffin holding a dead tribesman when the 25-seater bus ran off the road and plunged more than 50 metres down a cliff face on Wednesday.
Seventeen men, six women and a five year-old girl were killed in the crash.
The National newspaper reportss that nine people survived the accident with two of those in a critical condition.