MEXICO CITY—A passenger bus lost control and veered off a road and into a 75-foot-deep (25 meter-deep) gully in southern Mexico early Wednesday, killing at least 29 passengers, officials said.
The crash occurred in the largely indigenous Mixteca region of the southern state of Oaxaca.
The state’s interior secretary, Jesús Romero, said 27 people had died in the crash, including a 1 1/2-year-old toddler. He said that about 20 people were injured in the accident, some very seriously.
His office later said the death toll had increased to 29, after two victims died from their injures at a hospital.
Romero said the bus driver apparently lost control of the vehicle and plunged into the gully….