A bus carrying tourists crashed in western Mexico this morning, killing at least 17 and injuring 14, authorities said.
The Vallarta Plus bus was carrying 35 passengers from the resort city of Puerto Vallarta to Guadalajara before dawn when it ran off a mountain road and plunged down a 820-foot ravine, Nayarit's state prosecutor's office said.
At least 17 people were killed, including 13 men, three women and a one-year-old child. Another 14 were injured, five badly, it said.
The driver of the bus was also injured and hospitalised, authorities said.
Vallarta Plus spokesman Daniel Rios said as many as half of the passengers were from a flight that had left Phoenix, Arizona on Friday for Guadalajara. The plane had been rerouted to Puerto Vallarta along with 17 other flights because of a fire at the Guadalajara airport.
AP