No fewer than 14 people have been confirmed dead and 31 others were injured following a road accident in Mexico on Sunday, the authorities announced.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that the accident occurred in the state of Mexico, on the outskirts of the capital, when a bus overturned on the roadway, the local safety secretariat said.
“Preliminary figures put the death toll at 14, with a further 31 injured,” the same source said.
Road accidents have been on the rise in Mexico since 2020. A total of 377,231 claims were recorded in 2022, according to the National Statistics Institute.
On February 24, 10 people died in a traffic accident in the north-central state of San Luis Potosi, including four minors.
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On Saturday, a truck ran over migrants on foot, killing three of them, in the southern state of Oaxaca, reported the local press. The driver is still at large.
In a related development, at least nineteen persons have died in an auto crash in the Okene area of Kogi State, Nigeria, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said on Sunday.
“Emergency rescue teams of the Federal Road Safety Corps endured another over three hours of inferno in their bid to rescue road traffic victims at the scene of a fatal crash that claimed 19 lives on Sunday 28 April 2024 at Okene bypass, on the Okene-Lokoja highway in Kogi State,” FRSC’s corps education officer Jonas Agwu said in a Sunday statement.
The accident involved two vehicles, a truck, and a Toyota Hiace bus coming from Kano State, he said. Both vehicles collided, however.
“The impact of the collision resulted in a fire inferno that burnt the victims to death,” the statement read.
Twenty-two persons, all male, were involved. But 19 of them were killed and one injured. Two other persons were rescued unhurt by FRSC operatives.
The bodies of the dead victims have been deposited at Okene General Hospital.