■ MEXICO
Fourteen killed in bus crash
A collision between a passenger bus and a smaller bus left 14 people dead in the south, according to reports on Sunday. Another 20 people were injured, some seriously, in the wreck on Saturday evening near the town of Tantoyuca in northern Veracruz, a state on the country’s southern Gulf Coast. Eleven of the dead were passengers on the smaller bus.
■ MEXICO
US cargo plane crashes
A US cargo plane crashed on Sunday onto a roadway as it approached an airport in northern Mexico, killing the pilot and wounding the copilot, local police and the airline said. The plane belonging to Michigan-based company USA Jet Airlines had picked up a load of auto parts in Ontario, Canada and stopped to clear US customs in Shreveport, Louisiana. It then departed for Mexico and was preparing to land at Plan de Guadalupe airport near the town of Ramoz Arizpe in Coahuila state when it crashed before dawn on Sunday, according to USA Jet Airlines vice president Don McNeff.
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