Bus crash kills 18 in western Mexico

UPDATE: 

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url="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/09/15/mexico.buscrash.ap/"]MEXICO
CITY, Mexico (AP) -- A bus carrying tourists including passengers of a
flight from Phoenix crashed in western Mexico on Saturday, killing at
least 17 people, authorities said.

The bus was carrying 35 passengers from the resort city of Puerto
Vallarta to Guadalajara when it ran off a mountain road and plunged
into a ravine near the town of Compostela, about 125 miles from
Guadalajara, the Nayarit's state prosecutor's office said in a
statement.

At least 17 people were killed, including 13 men, three women and a
1-year-old child. Another 14 were injured, five seriously, the
statement said.

Red Cross spokesman Miguel Langarica said 18 people were killed and
13 injured. It was not immediately possible to explain the discrepancy
in the death tolls.

The driver, 28-year-old Magdiel Coronado, was also injured and hospitalized, authorities said.

Bus company spokesman Daniel Rios said as many as half of the
passengers had arrived in Mexico on a flight from Phoenix on Friday.
The plane had been bound for Guadalajara but was rerouted to Puerto
Vallarta along with 17 other flights because of a fire at the
Guadalajara airport.

Rios said the passengers had yet to be identified but that at least
eight family members were Mexicans legally living in Phoenix who were
in the country for Independence Day celebrations. Four of them were
injured and one, a 1-year-old child, was killed.

Authorities said four of the injured lived in Los Angeles and
Riverside, California, but they had no information on the deceased.

Reforma newspaper said the Guadalajara airport was shut down after a
flight from Cancun caught fire. It was unclear if there were any
injuries from the fire.[/q]