8 Americans Dead in Bus Crash in Mexico

Video grab of Mexican police officers standing guard in the area where a bus driving tourists to Chacchoben archaeological zone overturned in the road between El Cafetal and Mahahual, in Quintana Roo state, Mexico on Dec. 19, 2017. Manuel Jesus Ortega Canche/AFP/Getty Images

There were 8 Americans among the 12 who died in a bus crash in southeastern Mexico on Tuesday, Dec. 19. The bus carried passengers from two Royal Caribbean cruise ships on a day trip to Mayan ruins in Chacchoben when it flipped over on a highway.

Identities of the victims haven’t been released yet. Fanya Shamis, 78, of Coconut Creek, and her 11-year-old grandson may have died in the crash, according to Shamis’s grandson, Benjamin Shababo, Sun Sentinel reported.