Twenty-six die in Mexico bus crash

MEXICO CITY: At least 26 people were killed and 22 others injured in a bus accident Sunday in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, local authorities said.

The accident occurred at around 1:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT) in a highway between the towns of Tlamacazapa and Buenavista de Cuellar when the bus overturned and plunged into a 200-metre-deep ravine, said Guerrero State Civil Defence Secretary Constantino Gonzalez Vargas.

According to local media, all the victims are members of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and Workers' Party (PT), who were heading to a rally to be held in Buenavista de Cuellar.

Rescuers, paramedics and firefighters rushed to the scene to help the victims while traffic was suspended along the highway to facilitate rescue efforts.

The injured were taken to nearby hospitals in the towns of Taxco, Iguala and Buenavista de Cuellar.

Carlos Reyes Torres, the state leader of the PRD, lamented the tragedy and said the victims were heading to Buenavista to support the PT's candidate for the municipal elections Elias Salgado.

The PRD's National President Jesus Zambrano also regretted the accident and expressed his solidarity with the families of the victims.

Mexico's Interior Minister Alejandro Poire has called the PT leader to offer his condolences. --BERNAMA-NNN-XINHUA

A general view of rescue workers at the site where at least 25 people died and more than 20 were injured after a bus accident in Guerrero state, west of Mexico, according to civil protection authorities, 24 June 2012. The accident occurred on the road between the towns of Tlamacazapa and Buenavista de Cuellar, when the bus overturned and fell from a 200m high hill, said state Civil Protection Secretary, Constantino Gonzalez Vargas. Photo by EPA.

Bodies, covered with white sheets, lie on a road next to the site of a passenger bus crash in the southwestern state of Guerrero June 24, 2012. At least 32 people were killed on Sunday after the bus they were travelling in turned over on the wet road, a Red Cross official said. At least seven people were injured and believed to be in serious condition, the official said. The official said most of the people inside the passenger bus were wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of Mexico's Labor Party (PT), a small grouping in Congress supporting leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.Photo by Reuters.

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Twenty-six die in Mexico bus crash

MEXICO CITY: At least 26 people were killed and 22 others injured in a bus accident Sunday in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, local authorities said.

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