A bus carrying migrants from Venezuela, Colombia and Central America crashed in central Mexico, killing 17 people, officials in Puebla state said on Monday.
The accident occurred on a highway on Sunday afternoon as a bus with 45 passengers headed north, Puebla’s Interior Minister Julio Huerta told reporters.
“Fifteen people at the moment of the accident lost their lives,” he told a news conference. Another 15 were hospitalised, two of whom later died, he said. Five others remain in critical condition.
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