Fifteen people are dead and 47 are being treated for their injuries after a bus carrying holiday season tourists flipped on a highway in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, authorities said Saturday.
Officials in the nearby state of Guanajuato said all the passengers were from the same city, Leon, in that state. It is not unusual for friends, relatives, or neighbors in Mexico to pool their money to rent a bus for beach vacations.
Prosecutors in Nayarit said the accident occurred Friday, on a rural stretch of road. They said the dead included . . .
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