At least 12 killed in tourist bus crash in Mexico

The scene of Tuesday's bus accident in Mexico.
(Image credit: Manuel Jesus Ortega Canache/AFP/Getty Images)

A bus driving cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico crashed on Tuesday, flipping over and killing at least 12 people, including one child, and injuring as many as 20.

There were 31 people on the bus, the tourism ministry of Quintana Roo state said, hailing from the United States, Italy, Sweden, and Brazil. Royal Caribbean says they were passengers on their Celebrity Equinox and Serenade of the Seas ships, headed to the ruins of Chacchoben, 110 miles south of Tulum.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.