translated from Spanish: Add 13 dead after truck crash in Mexico-Pachuca

Edomex.- The death toll has risen to 13 after the heavy clash between three public transport trucks on Monday night on the Mexico-Pachuca highway.The first reports indicated that at least 10 people had died and 20 others were injured, many of them in serious condition. At least seven of the victims have been identified by relatives.

Work to address the incident continued until the first minutes of this Tuesday, November 19. The accident took place around 19:20 on Monday, at the height of kilometer 16 towards Pachuca. The three public transport trucks involved had left the Green Indian Metro station and were heading to different points in the State of Mexico.
Versions indicate that one of the vehicles was standing and a second was passing passage when a third truck arrived and hit the rear one of the previous ones. The front of the crashed truck was completely destroyed, while several of the seats of the unit that received the impact left its place. Several motorists transiting the area stopped to assist the injured, who were transferred to hospitals in Las Americas in Ecatepec, imsprice Clinic 68 and Magdalena de las Salinas.La highway remained closed to traffic towards Pachuca at 22:30 hours due to maneuvers to remove the rugged units, as several pieces were scattered up to 10 meters away.

Tonight colleagues from Prehospital Care, Firefighters and Urban Rescue attended a heavy crash on the Mexico-Pachuca highway at the height of the El Gallito colony. Unfortunately, some passengers are reported to be killed. pic.twitter.com/UkD33jRja4 — Civil Protection (@PCB_Ecatepec)
November 19, 2019

At 23:00 a.m. a lane was released from the highway and until the first minutes of Tuesday the local vehicles were removed. So far, the whereabouts of the driver driving the bus that crashed are unknown.

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