Sixteen people have been killed and 22 injured when a freight train slammed into a passenger bus at a rail crossing in northern Mexico.
Friday's accident occurred in the town of Anahuac, which is Tamaulipas state near the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
The train's operator, Kansas City Southern de Mexico, confirmed there had been "a lamentable accident" between one of its trains and a passenger bus.
The company said its employees reported "an undetermined number of dead and injured at the scene."
Kansas City Southern didn't give a cause for the crash. The Mexican official said investigators were looking into whether the bus driver tried to beat the train to the crossing.
The train was operated by the Transporte Frontera line on a route from Nuevo Laredo to the neighbouring state of Coahuila.
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