Mexico Bus Accident: 17 people killed, many injured after a bus full of passengers overturned

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Mexico Bus Accident: 17 people killed, many injured after a bus full of passengers overturned

bus accident in mexico

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Information about a major bus accident has come to the fore in Central Mexico, America. A bus carrying migrants from Venezuela, Colombia and Central America has crashed in central Mexico, killing 17 people. According to media reports, the accident was quite horrific. The accident took place on a highway on Sunday afternoon when the bus was carrying 45 passengers.

On this accident, Puebla’s Interior Minister Julio Huerta said that 15 people lost their lives in the accident. While another 15 were admitted to the hospital, two of whom died during treatment at the hospital. The condition of 5 other people is critical in this accident.

According to media reports, a private bus called Turisticos Medina was traveling from the southern Mexican border city of Tapachula to Mexico City. After which this accident happened. It was also reported by officials that migrants often take risky routes to cross Mexico to get to the US border. Because of which such accidents happen.

Colombia’s foreign ministry said in a statement that a 56-year-old Colombian man was among the dead. The survivors included two Colombian men and a woman who were taken to a hospital in Puebla and an injured person who was handed over to immigration authorities in the neighboring state of Oaxaca. The driver lost control of the bus. After which this accident happened.

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