Sensitive imagesTragedy. Five Argentines died and two others were injured in a traffic accident in Playa del Carmen

A tragedy struck the city of Carmen beach in Mexico: five Argentine tourists who were on vacation died in the last few hours after a serious traffic accident and two others were injured, as confirmed by Foreign Ministry sources. THE NATION. The fatal accident occurred on Sunday afternoon, while they were traveling in a van on a highway where they collided head-on with another tourist van.

As reported by the secretariat of Citizen Security of the State of Quintana Roosecurity and rescue units went to a major accident that occurred on the highway Puerto Aventuras-Tulum around 1:00 p.m. (local time), after an emergency call for a road accident.

At the scene, rescue maneuvers began on the vehicle that was destroyed and the death of five men of Argentine nationality, a man of Mexican nationality [el conductor de la camioneta de turismo] and two more Argentines were rescued and were rushed to a hospital.

The operation was attended by state authorities, who sent a medical team, police officers and a helicopter that was used to transport the injured. Of those hospitalized, it emerged that one was under observation with apparent minor injuries and another had to undergo surgery.

According to what this media learned, the Argentine Consulate in Playa del Carmen was working there last night, while The Foreign Ministry maintained contact with family members in the country in order to provide support and assistance.

Although the local prosecutor’s office is working to determine how the accident occurred, the first hypothesis focuses on that the driver of the van may have lost control and crossed into the opposite lane where he collided head-on with the van of the tourist company eTransfers.

The wet pavement due to the intense rains that occurred in the Mayan Riviera area could have been a key factor in the fatal maneuver.

Mara Lezam, the governor of the state of Quintana Roo, shared the images of the helicopter rescue on her X account and explained the work that was carried out at the site. “The emergency, security and civil protection teams are already in charge of transferring the person who is being treated after the unfortunate car accident that occurred on the Puerto Aventuras-Tulum federal highway,” she announced hours after the accident.

In some of the videos that went viral on social networks, you can see that the victims were dressed in green clothing, so it is believed that they were going to watch a soccer game near the city of Cancun.

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