Mexico bus crash: 15 dead in Nayarit ravine plunge
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The crash happened on a highway outside Nayarit state capital Tepic
At least 15 people are thought to have died and 21 have been injured in a bus crash in Mexico.
State officials said the bus plunged into a ravine.
The crash happened in the early hours of Thursday in the western coastal state of Nayarit.
The Elite passenger bus was heading towards Tijuana when the incident occurred on a highway near Barranca Blanca, outside state capital Tepic.
Video footage on social media shows several emergency service vehicles on the highway and the bus down the bank.
The bus crashed into the ravine
"At the scene there were 21 injured people of various ages who were attended to, as well as 15 people who are presumed to be without signs of life," Nayarit Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection said in a post on social media.
"Work is being done to remove them from the site."
The bus company Elite has not commented.
