Mexico Releases Names of Bus Crash Survivors
 Louie Gilot - El Paso Times
| | Relatives of victims cry near the site of a traffic accident outside Ciudad Juarez April 14, 2007. (Reuters/Stringer) |
Juarez - Mexican officials on Monday released a list of the 20 survivors of a bus crash that killed 28 people in Samalayuca, Chihuahua, just south of Juárez.
It is unknown if any of the passengers in the bus were from El Paso. The injured were sent to various hospitals in Juárez.
The bus crash was 20 miles south of Juárez on Saturday morning, Juárez state police said.
Police said the bus from the company Omnibus de México was going from Jiménez, Chihuahua, to Juárez when it hit a tractor trailer at 5:40 a.m.
Officials released a list of the injured but said they would need several weeks to identify the dead through DNA tests because the bodies were charred when the bus caught on fire.
The bus may have been overbooked because Omnibus de México only listed 38 passengers.
Chihuahua state officials said the company agreed to pay funeral costs and hospital costs for the victims.
The injured were identified as:
• Dora Patricia Carlos Neri, 36, was seating in seat 27;
• Yezenia Holguín Espinoza, 21, was seating in seat 25;
• Elsa Leticia Rodríguez Montes, was seating in seat 29;
• Carlos Omar Rodríguez Montes, 12, was seating in seat 30;
• Julieta Fernández Váldez, 37, was seating in seat 1;
• Isabel Ortega Coronado, 25, was seating in seat 22;
• Julieta Morales Rodríguez, 41, was seating in seat 9;
• Diana Alejandra Bañuelas Santana, 22, was seating in seat 21;
• Luís Armando Peinado Hernández, 28, was seating in seat 26;
(They were transported to the Centro Médico de Especialidades.)
• Roxana Aguirre, 36, was seating in seat 23;
• Ana Paola Rentería Aguirre, 17, was seating in seat 24;
• Soledad Avila Franco, 59, was seating in seat 31;
(They were transported to IMSS Clínica número 66.)
• Brenda Alejandra Quiñónez, 21, was seating in seat 28;
• Mariana Perea Rodríguez, 20, was seating in seat 33;
• Saraí Perea Rodríguez, 23, was seating in seat 34;
• Saúl Moreno, 2;
• Gabriela Valles Ochoa, 8;
(They were transported to Hospital Guernika.)
• Fermín Gaucín Mendoza, 25;
• Armando Galaviz Mendoza, 22;
• Carolina Porras Alvarez, 11, was seating in seat 6;
The bus may have been overbooked because Ómnibus de México only listed 38 passengers.
Chihuahua state officials said that the company agreed to pay funeral costs and hospital costs for the victims.
Louie Gilot may be reached at lgilot@elpasotimes.com. |
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