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14 die as bus plunges into sea

At least 14 people died in southern Russia on Friday after a bus carrying construction workers veered off a pier and plunged into the Black Sea, officials said. The bus was carrying people from their shift building a pier for the Tamanneftegaz oil company in the Taman port when the accident happened. Earlier the Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that the bus was carrying 35 people, 20 of whom have been rescued.