Mexico bus crash kills 12 tourists including foreigners

TIL Desk/World/Mexico City/ A bus carrying tourists from US cruise ships to an archeological site in Mexico crashed after running off the road, killing at least 12 people including several foreigners, state authorities said.

The crash, which left another 18 injured, happened on a highway in the state of Quintana Roo, located on the eastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula and well known as home to the Caribbean resort city of Cancun.

The dead and injured included “citizens of the United States, Sweden and Brazil,” a brief statement said without further information on numbers from each country, or their ages. The bus was carrying 31 passengers on a straight stretch of road with little traffic. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

Twenty-three of the passengers had arrived on the ships Celebrity Equinox and Serenade of the Seas, cruise owner Royal Caribbean Cruises told. Mexican authorities said that they did not have further details of the nationalities of those killed.