Ten people died and two were injured in a car crash and fire on the southwestern Mexican coast near the tourist hot spot of Acapulco, the nation’s civil protection agency said on Saturday.
Two cars, and a motorcycle collided on the highway between Acapulco and beach city Zihuatanejo in the state of Guerrero in the accident late Friday, the civil protection communications centre said, according to a Reuters report.
The centre said it did not know whether there were any foreigners among the victims. Guerrero’s civil protection agency said a one-year-old and four-year-old were killed in the accident, and that others who died ranged from 26 to 76 years old. The wounded survivors are aged 8 and 18.
The highway along the Pacific Coast is typically busier than usual at year-end, when tourists flock to beaches for vacations.
Last week a dozen tourists - including US, Brazilian, Canadian, and Swedish citizens - were killed when their bus crashed and flipped over on a highway in the Yucatan peninsula state of Quintana Roo, where many popular tourist sites are located.