18 migrants killed, 29 injured after bus overturns in Mexico

Oaxaca: At least 18 people, including three children and two women, lost their lives in a bus crash in the Mexican state of Oaxaca on Friday, as reported by CNN citing local authorities. The majority of the passengers were migrants hailing from Venezuela and Haiti. The accident occurred at approximately 5 am local time, leaving 27 people injured, who were subsequently transported to nearby hospitals. Authorities have stated that an investigation into the cause of the accident is currently underway.

Images shared by authorities on Facebook depict a significant bus flipped over and extensively damaged on a curve along the mountainous Oaxaca-Cuacnopalan highway, as reported by CNN.

This incident follows a tragic event on Sunday in which at least ten Cuban migrants, including a child, lost their lives when the truck they were traveling in overturned in southern Mexico, according to local authorities.