By Bing Guan and Sharon Bernstein HOLTVILLE, Calif. (Reuters) - At least 13 people, 10 of them Mexican nationals, were killed on Tuesday when a tractor-trailer slammed into an SUV crammed with 25 adults and children on a dusty Southern Californian road near the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents opened an investigation into whether human smuggling was involved, an agency spokeswoman said in a statement hours later. Handmade wooden crosses stretched in a line across a patch of dry grass and dirt by the roadside, and a seat covered in what appeared to be blood lay near the crumpled Ford Expedition, as the desolate highway through the farming community of Holtville remained closed Tuesday afternoon. The white tractor-trailer cab with yellow trim was still smashed into the wrecked side of the maroon SUV. The entire driver s side of the smaller vehicle was caved in, and the passenger side was flung wide open. Unfortunately, consular sta
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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.
An SUV packed with people and a semitruck towing two trailers collided in a rural California county near the Mexican border on Tuesday morning, leaving at least a dozen dead and others hospitalized, officials said.