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Cancun pedestrian killed after being run over by city bus

Cancun, Q.R. — A Cancun woman was killed Tuesday after being knocked down and run over by a city bus. The unnamed woman was crossing Cobá Avenue at the time of the accident.

Police were able to track down the fleeing bus driver several blocks from the accident scene. At the site, a woman was found laying face down after her torso had been run over by the rear tires of the bus.

She was killed and pronounced dead on the road.

The public bus driver was arrested by a ministerial police officer who was passing through the area Tuesday afternoon. A officer in an unmarked car located the bus and cut off the driver who was reported by witnesses to have kept going.

According to information obtained, the driver of the bus claimed he did not realize he had hit or killed the pedestrian.