Mexico City [Mexico], February 7 (ANI/Xinhua): At least eight people were killed and several more injured when a bus overturned on a highway in Mexico's Quintana Roo state on Sunday, local authorities confirmed.

The Quintana Roo Prosecutor's Office tweeted that the accident had occurred on the Kantunilkin-Cancun highway in the municipality of Lazaro Cardenas near the town of El Tintal, and the victims were five men and three women.

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According to local media, the bus belonged to the Autobuses de Oriente company and collided with a truck carrying construction material.

Mexico ranks seventh worldwide and third in Latin America in terms of road traffic deaths, according to data from the National Institute of Public Health. (ANI/Xinhua)

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