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16 killed in northern Mexico highway crash

AP | By, Hermosillo, Mexico
Aug 07, 2012 10:25 AM IST

Mexican authorities say 16 people were killed when a minivan crossed into approaching traffic and crashed head-on with a trailer truck in the northern state of Sonora, across the border with Arizona.

Mexican authorities say 16 people were killed when a minivan crossed into approaching traffic and crashed head-on with a trailer truck in the northern state of Sonora, across the border with Arizona.

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Sonora state prosecutors say in a statement that all 14 people traveling in the minivan died in the Monday morning crash on the Caborca-Sonoyta highway. They say the minivan burst into flames and the bodies have not been identified because they were badly burned.

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Prosecutors say the driver of the trailer truck and his 10-year-old grandson traveling with him also died in the accident. Two adults and two children also in the truck were injured.

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