<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">At least 39 people died in Panama when a bus carrying migrants hoping to reach US plunged into ravine.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The bus was heading north and was near the Costa Rica border when the driver reportedly tried to turn around, having mistakenly passed a migrant hostel.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">There were 66 passengers on the bus and about 20 injured are now in hospital, officials said. Officials did not disclose the victims' nationalities.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Thousands of migrants risk their lives crossing Panama's swampy Darién Gap.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Last year, those numbers surged to a record 2.48 lakh migrants, most of them Venezuelans. Migrants from Haiti and Cuba also take the long overland route.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Panama's President Laurentino Cortizo extended condolences to the families of those killed in this accident, and reiterated the government's commitment to continue providing humanitarian aid and decent conditions to deal with irregular migration."</span></p>