32 dead in Mexico bus crash

At least 32 people have died after the bus they were traveling in turned over on a wet road in the southwestern Mexican state…

At least 32 people have died after the bus they were traveling in turned over on a wet road in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero.

At least seven people were injured and believed to be in a serious condition, a Red Cross official said. "In the area where it happened it's raining very hard," he added.

The official said most of the people inside the passenger bus were wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of Mexico's
Labour Party (PT), a small grouping in Congress supporting leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Mexico holds a presidential election on July 1st.

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Bus crashes and other road accidents are common on Mexico's main roads, causing hundreds of deaths a year.

In April, at least 43 people were killed when a cargo truck crashed into a bus on a highway in the Gulf state of Veracruz, in one of the worst incidents the country has suffered in recent times.

Reuters