Nine people have died after a tourist coach skidded off an icy highway in the northwestern US state of Oregon. Around 20 people were injured.

The vehicle, which was carrying 40 people, plunged 30 metres down an embankment on rural Interstate-84, coming to rest at the bottom of a snowy slope.

The coach is owned by a Canadian tour company and was en route from Las Vegas to Vancouver.

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