2023-10-06 21:52:03
A new dramatic road accident involving migrants in Mexico left at least 18 dead and 27 injured in the south of the country on Friday, all from Venezuela and Haiti, when the bus in which they were traveling overturned. “The provisional toll from this road accident is 18 dead (two women, three minors and 13 men), all from Venezuela and Haiti,” said the Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca in a press release. , adding that the accident also left 27 injured.
The tragedy occurred around 5 a.m. local time (11 a.m. GMT) when the driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle which overturned on a road linking the cities of Oaxaca and Cuacnopalan, in the neighboring state of Puebla (center), said the prosecutor’s office. The injured were transported to hospitals in the region, according to the same source.
Another accident five days ago
This tragedy comes just five days after another road accident in the state of Chiapas, in the south of the country, in which ten Cuban migrants, including a minor, were crammed into a truck and died. A few days earlier, two migrants were killed and 27 others injured when the truck transporting them overturned in the same state.
At the beginning of August, in the west of the country, at least 18 people died and 23 others were injured in the accident of a bus which fell into a ravine. The vehicle was mainly transporting migrants. The most serious accident occurred in December 2021 when 50 migrants crammed into the trailer of a truck died in the state of Chiapas. The truck was carrying a total of 160 migrants. Most of the victims were from Central America.
Many migrants cross Mexico illegally, crammed into buses, trucks and even freight trains, in very difficult conditions, to try to reach the United States. More than a thousand migrants arrived Tuesday in Ciudad Juarez, on the border between Mexico and the United States, perched on a freight train after around ten days of travel.
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