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PACHUCA, Mexico (AP) - A passenger bus skidded off a highway in central Mexico early Saturday and rolled down a 320-foot slope, killing 13 people and injuring a dozen others, local police said.
Rescue workers struggled to pull the injured and dead from the wreckage of the bus, which came to rest at the bottom of a rocky gully just outside the city of Pachuca, about 60 miles northeast of Mexico City.
The cause of the pre-dawn crash was not immediately known, and it was unclear whether the driver was among the dead or injured. The bus was traveling from the Gulf coast city of Tampico to Mexico City, said Sixto Hoyos, the director of public safety for Hidalgo state, where the accident occurred.
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