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View all search resultsTruck slams into Mexico teachers' protest
A tanker truck carrying tar slammed into a highway tollbooth that had been seized by protesting teachers Thursday, killing sevenpeople and injuring 14, authorities in the western state of Michoacan said
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tanker truck carrying tar slammed into a highway tollbooth that had been seized by protesting teachers Thursday, killing sevenpeople and injuring 14, authorities in the western state of Michoacan said.
State prosecutors' spokesman Alejandro Arellano said the accident occurred on a highway west of the state capital, Morelia.
Most of the dead and injured were believed to be teachers whose union has been holding protests in the state but authorities hadn't confirmed their identities, Arellano said. Union member Jorge Cazares said six victims so far had been identified by colleagues as junior high school teachers in the towns of Paracho and Santa Cruz Tanaco
