MEXICO CITY, Dec 27 (NNN-XINHUA) — At least six people were killed and two others seriously injured in a traffic accident early Thursday in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, said the local town hall.
The accident, involving a white pickup truck carrying three young people and a gray car carrying a family, occurred on the Los Reyes-Jacona highway near the town of La Ventilla in Tocumbo, said Jose Luis Alcazar, Tocumbo’s municipal president, in a statement.
“We join in the pain of the families affected by this irreparable loss and send our most sincere condolences to them at this time of sadness,” said Alcazar.
The accident site was cordoned off by municipal police officers, while the General Prosecutor’s Office of Michoacan state based in Tocumbo and Jiquilpan carried out the relevant investigation.
The World Health Organization this year ranked Mexico as the seventh country with the most traffic accidents in the world and the third in deaths resulting from these incidents in Latin America. — NNN-XINHUA
