At least 25 people were killed and 17 others injured when a passenger bus crashed into a ravine in Mexico in a mountainous region in the southern state of Oaxaca, local police said on Wednesday.
“The preliminary figure is 25 dead and 17 seriously injured,” a local police chief told an AFP correspondent over the phone, who asked not to be named because he didn’t have permission to visit. Express to the media.
According to the police and the public prosecutor’s office, the bus of a local transport company had left Mexico City and had its final destination in the village of Santiago de Yosondua (1,500 inhabitants).
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“We deeply regret the accident in Magdalena Penasco,” Oaxaca Governor Salomon Jara wrote on social media.
“Our government personnel are already on the ground, taking part in the relief efforts and giving our full support to the injured. We send our heartfelt greetings and condolences to the families of the deceased,” the governor added.
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Police social media footage shows the top of the bus completely destroyed as rescue workers dig through the debris.
Oaxaca is a very touristic destination, a kind of Mexico in miniature with its beaches, its mountains, the traditions of the Zapotec and Mixtec communities, the capital with its pastel colored buildings and the pre-Hispanic site of Monte Alban.