Bus Crash on Mexico Highway Kills 33

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Bus Crash on Mexico Highway Kills 33

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The brakes apparently failed on a 26-year-old bus Tuesday before it plowed through a highway toll booth and slammed into a concrete wall in western Mexico, killing at least 33 people, 10 of them children, headed for a re-enactment of the Last Supper. About 20 people were injured.

The 1976-model bus had picked up passengers in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero and was headed to the city of Guadalajara when the accident occurred in Zinapecuaro, 110 miles west of Mexico City.

Passengers were thrown through the bus windows in the crash, which scattered wreckage and bodies along hundreds of feet of roadway. The most severely injured were taken 30 miles to hospitals in Morelia, the Michoacan state capital, said local emergency services director Juan Alberto Valdez.

The victims all were members of the Luz Del Mundo, or Light of the World, a conservative Christian church based in Guadalajara, and were planning to participate in the annual re-enactment of the Last Supper that draws up to 300,000 people.

It was the latest in a string of fatal bus crashes in recent months in Mexico involving speeding, poorly maintained vehicles or poor road conditions.

Source: Agencies

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