10 killed in Mexico road crash

Mexico City, May 16 (IANS/EFE) As many as 16 people were killed and four injured in two separate road accidents in Mexico Thursday.

At least 10 people were killed and four injured in a collision between a bus and fuel truck in Mexican state of Tabasco, authorities said.

The crash took place late Thursday on a highway linking Villahermosa, Tabasco's capital, with Ciudad del Carmen in neighbouring Campeche state, a government official official Cesar Raul Ojeda said on Twitter.

Six people died earlier Thursday when a truck carrying chickens hit a bus on the Fresnillo-Cuencame highway in Durango state.

--IANS/EFE

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