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Mexico Crash Kills About 20 as Bus Slams Into Tractor-Trailer Mexico Crash Kills 21 as Bus Slams Into Tractor-Trailer
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MEXICO CITY — About 20 people died Wednesday in a fiery freeway accident involving a bus and a tractor-trailer in the Mexican state of Veracruz, according to the authorities and local news outlets. MEXICO CITY — A fiery freeway accident involving a bus and a tractor-trailer killed 21 people in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Wednesday, according to the authorities and local news outlets.
The accident occurred on a principal highway between the cities of Puebla and Orizaba. The accident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. local time on a principal highway between the cities of Puebla and Orizaba.
The bus was traveling east and carrying members of a Roman Catholic archdiocese in the southern state of Chiapas when its brakes failed and it slammed into a tractor-trailer, flipped over and burst into flames, local news media reported. The bus was traveling east and carrying passengers from a Roman Catholic archdiocese in the southern state of Chiapas when its brakes failed and it slammed into a tractor-trailer, flipped over and burst into flames, local news media reported.
Guadalupe Osorno Maldonado, the secretary for Civil Protection in the state of Veracruz, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that it appeared that 21 people were killed in the accident and that dozens had been injured. The Civil Protection office said that the death toll was not yet final. According to a spokesman for the Secretariat for Civil Protection in Veracruz, 19 people on the bus and two people in the truck were killed. At least 30 more people were injured and taken to the Rio Blanco Regional Hospital in Veracruz.
A message posted on a Facebook page associated with a parish in the archdiocese in Chiapas said the worshipers were returning from a weekend pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico’s most important Catholic shrine.A message posted on a Facebook page associated with a parish in the archdiocese in Chiapas said the worshipers were returning from a weekend pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico’s most important Catholic shrine.
The accident occurred along a stretch of the highway known for its hairpin curves, fog and occasional crashes.The accident occurred along a stretch of the highway known for its hairpin curves, fog and occasional crashes.