9 Dead Following Van Crash in Largely Indigenous Area on Mexico’s Caribbean Coast

A police officer in Quintana Roo State, Mexico, in a file photo. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images

MEXICO CITY—Nine people died Monday in a van crash on a highway in a largely Indigenous area on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said.

Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said that the van carrying the victims apparently collided with a truck.