The victims, female and male students, aged between 21 and 23, were celebrating the end of the school year and the start of the summer holidays on Saturday night in a lodge by the river.
Seven youths drowned when they fell into a river during a storm in the city of Coatzacoalcos, in the state of Veracruz, in eastern Mexico, sources close to the state authorities announced yesterday Sunday.
The victims, female and male students, aged between 21 and 23, were celebrating the end of the school year and the start of the summer holidays on Saturday night in a lodge by the river.
Sources close to the municipal police and civil protection explained to AFP that the young people fell into the Kalsadas-Coatzacoalcos river while trying to get a boat out by towing it with a car.
As a storm was raging at the time of the venture, the rushing waters of the river swept away the car they were in.
“It is about five young women and two young men (…) they all knew each other and were in a private residence when the accident occurred in which they lost their lives,” said the source in the civil protection.
The intensity of the storm made it difficult to rescue or simply retrieve the bodies of the young people, an AFP reporter on the ground found.
Source :Skai
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