Some 33 people - including a dozen children - were killed and at least 26 were injured yesterday when a bus taking them on a religious pilgrimage crashed on a highway in western Mexico, authorities said.
The vehicle's brakes apparently failed in the predawn hours near the town of Zinapecuaro, about 120 miles northwest of Mexico City in Michoacan state.
The bus ploughed through a toll booth before slamming into a pillar supporting a bridge.
The victims were members of the Luz del Mundo evangelical church from Tixtla in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero and had traveled overnight on their way to the church's annual Congress in Guadalajara.
Among the dead were a dozen children, including a 10-month-old baby, many of whom were traveling in their parents' laps in the overcrowded bus, officials said.