Large semi truck and bus carrying passengers returning from pilgrimage to Catholic shrine crash, killing at least 21 - officials
Rescue personal and forensic workers remove bodies at the site of a road accident in Coatzacoalcos, state of Veracruz, Mexico on May 29, 2019. A semi truck and a bus carrying passengers back from a pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine crashed and burst into flames Wednesday in eastern Mexico, killing at least 21 people, officials said.
"The forensic experts at the scene report 17 bodies of passengers who were traveling in the bus, plus two people who died in the semi truck," she said.The Catholic Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutierrez, in Chiapas, sent its condolences to the victims' loved ones in a statement. The accident occurred on a highway in a region known as the Maltrata hills, where the roads wind between peaks that rise more than 2,000 meters above sea level.
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