Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico: At least 53 Most of the Central American migrants died when the truck carrying them turned in southern Mexico on Thursday, in one of the worst accidents to befall people who risked the border of the United States.
The accident occurred when the truck crashed into a sharp curve outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez in the state of Chiapas, said Luis Manuel Garcia, Head of the Chiapas Civil Protection Agency.
The Office of Attorney General Mexico put the death toll at the age of 53.
A witness Reuters heard a desperate cry and sobbing from survivors when Mexican officials rushed to the scene.
Reuters’s image shows a white trailer upside down to his side on the highway, with some people appearing on the ground on the ground for medical care.
The picture also shows what lines seem to be the body of the victim of the accident wrapped in white cloth.
The video was broadcast after social media showed a woman who held the child wailing her lap, both bathing blood.
Another video showed a man curled in pain in the destroyed trailer, hardly moving as a maid pulling the body.
Fatality including men, women and children, said Chiapas civil protection.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Twitter said his sadness at the “very painful” incident.
The accident also injured several dozen people, who were taken to hospital in the area, the authorities said.
Migrants who escape poverty and violence in Central America usually travel through Mexico to reach the US border, and sometimes cram the big trucks organized by smugglers in very dangerous conditions.
“This shows us that irregular migration is not the best way,” Kevin Lopez, spokesman for the Guatemala Presidency, told Milenio Television.
He did not know how many victims of Guatemala were there.
El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill said his government worked to see whether Salvador had died.
The Mexico National Migration Institute said it would offer Visas Lodging and Humanity to the survivors, and Chiapas Governor Rutilio Escandon said those responsible for the accident would be taken into account.
Officials in Mexico routinely found migrants packed into trailers, including 600 people https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/migrant-12-counctries-among-600-f oround-two-trucks-mexico-2021- 11 -20 was found hidden behind two trucks in East Mexico last month.
Mexican authorities in Chiapas have tried to persuade migrants not to form caravans to run thousands of miles to the border A.S., and began transporting people from the South Tapachula to other areas in the country.
President Joe Biden’s administration has also urged migrants not to leave their homeland for the United States.
The critics say harder policies lead migrants to seek human smugglers, put their lives at risk.
“(Authorities) produce smelly migration that produces billions of dollars in profit,” said Migrant Activist Ruben Figueroa.