A landslide buried a bus carrying at least 40 passengers in the mountains of southern Puebla State early Wednesday morning, and by late afternoon, neither the government nor volunteers from local villages had been able to dig out the victims."Everyone is buried," said Miguel Angel Rodriguez, a shopkeeper from a nearby village who tried to help. "People cannot dig because huge rocks keep falling down."
The accident happened about 7:45 a.m. on a mountainous road between Tlacotepec de Porfirio Diaz and Zoquitlan in the Sierra Negra, a remote region of forested mountains at the juncture of the states of Puebla, Oaxaca and Veracruz.
Witnesses said 300 yards of the road was buried by large boulders and earth in a landslide that came after heavy rain the night before. The crush of earth pushed the bus off the road and nearly 150 yards down a ravine, where it disappeared under the mud, rocks and trees.
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