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Authorities say 27 people, thought to be farm workers, were travelling in a vehicle built to seat eight or nine passengers before it was hit by a semitrailer.
Los Angeles: A collision between a big rig and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the US-Mexico border Tuesday morning killed at least 13 and injured several others, officials said.
Both the number of people travelling in the SUV and the number of victims was unclear. Judy Cruz, the emergency department director at El Centro Regional Medical Centre, said 28 people were in the vehicle.
But Arturo Platero, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol’s El Centro office, said there were 25 people inside the Ford Expedition SUV, which is built for seven or eight travellers. He said the vehicle was carrying at least one teenager.
| UPDATED: 07:46, Wed, Mar 3, 2021
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An SUV with 25 people on board and a semi-truck carrying gravel in a trailer truck collided on State Route 115 near El Centro, California today. Judy Cruz, director of El Centro Regional Medical Centre, told reporters around 12 people died at the scene.