A passenger bus lost control and veered off a road and into a 75-foot-deep gully in southern Mexico on Wednesday, killing at least 27 passengers, an official said.
The state's Interior Secretary, Jesús Romero, said 27 people had died in the crash, including a 1 1/2 year-old toddler. He said that about 20 people were injured in the accident, some very seriously.“It appears that a lack of skill and tiredness caused the accident,” Romero said in remarks to a local television station.
Photos distributed by police suggest the bus had flipped, totally crushing the passenger compartment. The bus set out from Mexico City to carry passengers to a number of tiny, remote mountain villages in the impoverished Mixteca region.
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