four immigrants They died and 16 more people were injured This Thursday, the cargo vehicle in which they were being transported overturned on a road in the Buena Vista district of the municipality of Raudales Malpaso in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, authorities reported.
Foreigners whose nationality is not specified, They were traveling packed into the dump truck According to the license plate belonging to the state of Puebla and initial investigations, excessive speed and poor condition of the road caused the driver of the vehicle to lose control and go off the road. The cause of the rollover can be seen in the photos and videos published by municipal residents on social networks. A few migrants were blown away, others were stranded among the twisted bars of the cargo vehicle.
The accident occurred around 16:30 (22:30 GMT) and Civil Protection officers as well as the Security and National Institute for Migration (INM) arrived at the scene and transported the injured to the municipality’s main hospital. So far, neither the Chiapas authorities nor the INM have released any official information about the accident, but citizens who went to the accident scene stated that the immigrants came from Guatemala.
Traveling crowded in vans, trailers and buses is one of the most dangerous ways immigrants use to sneak across Mexico and into the United States, secret journeys for which they pay smugglers thousands of dollars.
Mexico has been experiencing a new wave of migration in recent weeks, as evidenced by the suspension of 60 freight trains of the Ferromex company due to the presence of more than 4,000 migrants in cars and on the tracks and a stampede of thousands of migrants. at refugee aid offices at the southern border.