Eighteen people died in Mexico after a bus plunged off a cliff on Saturday, April 29.
The bus accident took place in western Mexico, with Mexican authorities confirming the devastating loss of at least 18 lives and the injury of more than 30 passengers, including 11 children.
The Nayarit prosecutor’s office reported that the bus fell nearly 50 feet into a ravine on Saturday night. The accident occurred in the Mexican state of Nayarit, where the highway connecting Tepic and Puerto Vallarta, a well-known tourist hotspot, is located.
The prosecutor’s office tweeted that they immediately launched a coordinated response with various federal and state authorities to aid the victims. Images shared by Nayarit’s Security and Civil Protection Ministry showed rescue teams working to save survivors from the wreckage. Authorities confirmed that the deceased included 11 women and seven men, with 11 minors taken to hospitals for medical care.
Civil protection officer Pedro Nunez said that the doomed bus was transporting passengers on a 220-kilometer trip from Guadalajara in the neighboring Jalisco state to Guayabitos, a beach resort area in Nayarit.
Nunez added that no foreign nationals were on the bus and all passengers were Mexican citizens.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
This incident follows another fatal bus accident in February in the central Mexican state of Puebla, which resulted in the deaths of 17 people. Fifteen passengers were declared dead at the scene, while two more passed away while being transported to the hospital.
