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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on December 20, 2017, 01:01:27 am
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12 passengers from cruise ships from Miami and Fort Lauderdale dead in Mexico bus crash
Associated Press
At least 12 passengers from cruise ships that departed from Miami and Fort Lauderdale were killed when a bus carrying them to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway early Tuesday, officials said.
Seven Americans and two Swedes were among the injured, Quintana Roo state Civil Defense spokesman Vicente Martin said. He said authorities hadn't yet established the nationalities of the dead.
Video images from the scene showed the bus on its side in vegetation off the two-lane highway, with some survivors lying on the pavement and others walking around.
Read more at: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-mexico-tourist-bus-crash-20171219-story.html (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-mexico-tourist-bus-crash-20171219-story.html)
The death toll here, is actually even worse than what happened in Washington state but I would understand the different news coverage. Bus and train crashes are not altogether uncommon in Mexico.
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The death toll here, is actually even worse than what happened in Washington state but I would understand the different news coverage. Bus and train crashes are not altogether uncommon in Mexico.
The difference in coverage is that you should expect to die in a 3rd world hellhole. Nothing shocking here.