Cruise passengers in fatal bus crash in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. says that
passengers from two of its ships have been involved in a fatal bus crash in
Mexico.

Royal Caribbean said passengers from the Celebrity Equinox
and Serenade of the Seas were on the bus that flipped on a two-lane highway
Tuesday morning.

Quintana Roo state Civil Defense spokesman Vicente Martin
says 12 people were killed, though it’s not clear if all were cruise passengers
and their identities and nationalities have not been released. He says seven
Americans and two Swedish citizens are among those injured.

The bus was travelling to Mayan ruins at Chacchoben, about
110 miles south of Tulum.

A spokesman from the U.S. embassy in Mexico says diplomats
are working with local authorities to determine whether U.S. citizens were
involved.