The accident occurred just 24 hours after the deadliest tragedy related to immigrant trafficking in US history where 53 people were found dead inside an abandoned truck tug.
Jeep transporting migrants was involved in a traffic accident while trying to escape from US Border Patrol (CBP) vehicles that were chasing it in the city of Ensinal, in the state Texas of the American South, resulting in four people lose their lives and three others to be injured and hospitalized, U.S. and Mexican authorities announced Thursday.
The accident occurred just 24 hours after the deadliest tragedy related to immigrant trafficking in US history, in San Antonio, where 53 people were found dead inside the trailer of an abandoned truck.
Two Mexicans, a Guatemalan national and another unidentified man were killed yesterday, the Mexican consulate in Laredo said in a press release.
The driver of the car, a US citizen, has been taken to hospital, as have two other people believed to be Guatemalan nationals, according to the consulate, the Mexican Interior Ministry and the Mexican Immigration Service (INM).
The jeep had departed from Laredo and was heading to San Antonio.
The Texas Department of Homeland Security is investigating the crash, a spokeswoman said on Twitter.
Authorities have arrested four suspects, including one believed to be the driver of the truck, in Monday’s tragedy, when dozens of migrants died trapped inside a truck that had been abandoned on the outskirts of San Antonio with temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius. . According to them, when he was arrested he was under the influence of drugs.
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