At least 29 people were killed and 19 injured when the bus they were traveling in crashed Wednesday into a ravine in southern Mexico, in a mountainous area of the state of Oaxaca, authorities said.
“The figures we have, 12 hours after the start of the rescue operations, are 29 dead and 19 injured,” state prosecutor Bernardo Rodríguez Alamilla said by telephone.
The bus, belonging to a local transportation company, had left Mexico City the night before for the town of Santiago de Yosondua.
The accident took place in the territory of Magdalena Peñasco, one of the many mountain communities served by local companies.
The Public Ministry declared that it had opened an investigation to determine the causes of the accident, having initially advanced the hypothesis of a “mechanical failure”.
“Probably, the driver lost control” of the bus, which “fell more than 25 meters into the ravine,” Oaxaca government Security Secretary Jesús Romero said at a press conference.
Source: TSF
