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Greyhound : CAMPBELLTON, Texas – A tour bus heading to Mexico, carrying 40 people overturned on a highway along the south Texas on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring an unknown number of others, officials said.

The incident occurred at about 10 am on the joint 37 to the south, about 45 miles south of San Antonio, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger told AFP. He said investigators suspect equipment failure may be caused by the crash.

“The driver said I heard a loud bang and then lost control of the car,” said Vinger.

Some of the injured were in serious condition, said Vinger.

Two people were immediately taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, and at least four others to the University Hospital in San Antonio. Medical conditions were not immediately known.

The bus was carrying passengers and Mexican American, Vinger said ‘.

Was flying from San Antonio Matamoros, Mexico, near the border with the United States, with a stop planned in Falfurrias, Texas, said spokeswoman Bonnie Bastian Greyhound. Was operated spinning Americans, owned by Greyhound.

The bus came to rest on its side in the average grassy. Television footage showed people while they patrolled outside the overturned bus, which was with debris and luggage strewn around him.

Bastian said she did not have any information on the status of the passengers or information about the driver.

“Right now our priority is for the passengers on the bus,” said Bastian.

The National Transportation Safety Board that he did not specify whether it will be investigated, an agency spokesman Keith Holloway. A spokeswoman with the Federal motor carrier safety administration that the agency had just heard about the crash and was beginning to gather information.