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20 Dead As Bus Conveying Football Team Skids Of A Bridge In East Mexico (Graphic Photos)

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At least 20 people were killed Sunday when a bus plummeted off a road and into a ravine in Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz. The head of the civil defense office in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, Yolanda Gutierrez says the accident killed 20 of the 45 people on board.
Yolanda Gutierrez said the bus was apparently carrying members of a soccer team when it skidded of a bridge on Sunday near the city of Cordoba.
The Veracruz state government said the bus was likely speeding, and the driver lost control when it went over a speed bump. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto expressed condolences to the victims’ families on his Twitter account. It was unclear if the driver survived. There was no immediate information on the condition of the 25 injured.

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