Two recent graduates from a Florida high school were killed in a crash hours after they arrived in Peru on a long-awaited senior trip, according to a report.
Albert Ales and Zachary Morris, both 18, traveled to Cusco on Friday to celebrate their graduation from Bradenton’s Southeast High School and died in a motorbike accident, news station KTSU reported.
The close pals were exploring the city when they fatally collided with a public transportation bus.
Both teens were brought to a local hospital, where they died later that day from their injuries, according to the news station.
“You see stuff like this in the news, so it’s really hard when this happens to you, it’s not easy,” friend Anthony Sevarino told KTSU.
The pair died nearly a week after they graduated from the school’s rigorous International Baccalaureate program.
“Our Southeast Community is heartbroken after hearing the unimaginable news that recent IB graduates Albert Ales and Zachary Morris passed away yesterday in a tragic accident while exploring Peru,” the school wrote in a tweet.
Morris was planning to attend Yale University and Ales was headed to the University of Central Florida.
“These young men, they exemplified the best in what our school can produce and what our state can produce. They were the best,” teacher Richard Platt told news station WFLA.



