16 dead after bus crashes with trailer in central Mexico

Fifteen Mexicans and one Venezuelan died in a highway accident in central Mexico early on Tuesday, officers from Mexico’s INM migration institute mentioned in a press release.

The 52 passengers touring on the bus on Mexico’s Miahuatlan-Coixtlahuaca freeway included 10 passengers from Venezuela, the INM mentioned, including they’d appointments to hunt authorized entry to the USA.

Some 36 passengers had been injured and brought to hospital after the bus crashed with a trailer within the early hours of the morning, officers from the state of Puebla mentioned in a separate assertion.

9 of the injured had been Venezuelan and of these, three stay hospitalized, in keeping with the INM, which mentioned help could be given to return the physique of the deceased to Venezuela.

Native media had earlier reported that these killed within the crash had been principally migrants from Venezuela.

A video shared on X by the native Pink Cross unit confirmed a mangled white bus mendacity on its facet whereas rescue groups labored at the hours of darkness.