At least 41 people were killed in the early hours of Saturday morning in the southern state of Mexico.
The bus carrying 48 people crashed with a truck, resulting in 38 passengers and two drivers of the bus, the news agency Reuters said. The driver of the truck also died in the accident.
Only nine people ended to escape the bus, and five are currently being treated in local hospitals, According to the Regional Newspaper War Esto!
The two vehicles involved exploded into flames, preventing them from rescuing more people by rapid burning inferno passers -by and emergency workers.
The bus, which runs by the Tour Acosta, was released from the Caribbean Resort City, Kankan on Friday night. It was traveling west of the Ugadon Peninsula on the Federal Highway 186, the Villahhermosa of the Gulf Coast city of Tabasco, its final place.
Reuters pictures show that the bus was completely burnt following the conflict, and the bone residues of the metal frame stand on the left.
Rescue operations are ongoing, including efforts to identify the victims of the accident, said neighboring Tabasco officials.
“So far, only 18 (only 18 bodies) have been confirmed, but many more,” said Tabasco sources, who told Reuters that the rescue operation continued.
The bus -based bus company -based bus company on Facebook said that he was “deeply sorry about what had happened” and that he was working with the authorities to find out what happened and that the bus was traveling into the speed limit.
“The local lawyer’s office has informed us that the investigation is going to be implemented … The Municipality of Campeche,” Turin Akosta, who wrote, advised the relatives of the passengers to contact the officers there, “to perform related procedures.”
“We are working … with the Tabasco government, the central authorities and the Mayor of Escarseka, Juan Carlos Hernandez Rad, to support the victims of this unfortunate accident as much as possible,” he wrote.
In a statement published on FacebookMayor Hernandez Rath has stepped up to provide food and shelter to the families of the tragedy of the tragic accident, said the government minister Liz Hernandez.
With reports from ReoidOvarian DayOvarian BBC And L Heraldo de Tabasco
