As a result of an accident, trucks in southern Mexico killed at least 54 people and more than fifty were injured. Among the dead are women and children.
The tragedy took place in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The truck is known to have carried over 100 people believed to be migrants from Latin and Central America. The accident occurred after a truck overturned and crashed into a footbridge at a sharp bend.
Local officials said the cause of the accident could have been overloading the trailer by migrants .
Mexico's attorney general's office said 54 dead, and local officials said more than 50 more people were injured, of which about 40 were in serious condition taken to local hospitals.
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Media reports say this is one of the biggest fatal migrant tragedies in Mexico since the killing of 72 migrants in 2010 by the Zetas drug cartel in the northern state of Tamaulipas.
The head of the Chiapas State Civil Defense Authority, Luis Manuel Moreno, said the victims were immigrants from Central America, although their nationality has not yet been confirmed. Moreno added that some of the survivors said they were from Guatemala.
The first responders to the scene said there were more in the truck when it crashed. migrants, but they fled for fear of being detained by the migration service. One of the doctors noted that some of those who fled to the surrounding areas were bloody or bruised.
Those who spoke to the survivors said that the migrants said they got into a truck in Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. and paid from $ 2,500-3,500 for transportation to the central Mexican state of Puebla. Once there, they would contract another group of smugglers to take them to the US border.
In recent months, the Mexican authorities have tried to prevent migrants from moving in large groups to the US border, but the illegal and illegal flow of migrants continues.
