Bus Carrying Migrants in Mexico Crashes, Killing 17

A member of the Federal Police stands guard at a checkpoint in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, on April 6, 2018. Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images

MEXICO CITY—A bus carrying migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, and Central America crashed in central Mexico, killing 17 people, officials in Puebla state said on Monday.

The accident occurred on a highway on Sunday afternoon as a bus with 45 passengers headed north, Puebla’s Interior Minister Julio Huerta told reporters.