At least 36 people killed in Mexican bus crash

At least 36 people were killed andfour injured on Sunday when a bus crashed into the back of a truck in easternMexico and caught fire, the government of the state of Veracruz said.

The bus had left Villahermosa in Tabasco state and was enroute to Mexico City when it crashed near the municipality of Juan RodriguezClara, the Veracruz government said in a statement.

"Apart from being hit, the bus also caught fire, makingthe job of identifying bodies difficult," Veracruz Governor Javier Duartesaid on local television.

The truck was "badly parked on the motorway" whenthe bus hit, the statement said, citing federal police reports. The bus wascompletely consumed by the fire, it added, raising the death toll from theaccident from 33 reported earlier.

Bus crashes and road accidents occur frequently in Mexico,taking a heavy death toll each year.

In 2012, at least 43 people died when a truck hit a bus inVeracruz, and just a couple of months later more than 30 others were killed ina separate accident in Guerrero state.