5 Pilgrims Die in Crash
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MEXICO CITY — Five people died and at least 12 people were injured Tuesday when a bus carrying pilgrims to celebrate the anniversary of the sighting of Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe crashed head-on into a truck en route to Mexico City, police said. Every year hundreds of thousands of worshipers flock to the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, who was first sighted on a Mexican Indian’s tunic on Dec. 12, 1531.
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