Mexican bus crash kills at least 43

MEXICO CITY, Apr 17 (Reuters) At least 43 people died today when a tour bus crashed into a ravine in eastern Mexico, rescue officials said.

Five children were among those killed in the accident on a highway linking the capital with the port city of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico, said civil protection official Ranulfo Marquez.

He said the dead were all Mexicans on a chartered bus traveling from the western city of Guadalajara to Veracruz, a colonial city.

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