Iran Press/ America: A passenger bus lost control and veered off a road and into a 75-foot-deep (25 meter-deep) gully in southern Mexico early Wednesday, killing at least 29 passengers, officials said.
The crash occurred in the largely indigenous Mixteca region of the southern state of Oaxaca.
The state’s Interior Secretary Jesús Romero said that preliminary reports showed that 26 or 27 people had died in the crash.
Romero said the bus driver apparently lost control of the vehicle and plunged into the gully.
Photos distributed by police suggested the bus had flipped, totally crushing the passenger compartment.
The route, and the possessions, bundles and baskets strewn amid the wreckage, suggested the victims were people who worked in manual labor in the capital and were returning to their home towns. 219
