At least 23 people killed in three highway accidents in Mexico

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(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-22 10:24

MEXICAN CITY -- At least 23 people have been killed in three separate highway accidents in Mexico's northern states of Coahuila and Sonora, authorities said Monday.

The first accident occurred Sunday night when a car carrying nine people entered the oncoming lane on the Zaragoza-Ciudad Acuna federal road and collided with a bus.

All of the car's passengers, who belonged to the same family and included five children, were killed, Coahuila's justice general prosecutor said.

The bus driver and eight passengers suffered non life-threatening injuries.

The second accident also happened in the state of Coahuila. A car entered the opposite lane and collided with a trailer truck on the highway that connects the states of Nuevo Leno and Coahuila.

The driver of the car, identified as Fafael Giron Lopez, was killed in the accident. Police said he had been drunk at the time.

In the last case, a car and a trailer truck smashed into each other Monday in the municipality of Agua Prieta, Sonora, leaving 13 people dead.