At least 49 people died on Thursday (9), mostly migrants from Central America, after a truck they were traveling in collided with a wall and overturned on a road in the Mexican state of Chiapas (south), according to Ministry sources State public.
Another 40 people were injured, three of them seriously, while another 18 were stable, according to a preliminary bulletin from the MP in Chiapas, a state bordering Guatemala and the main point of access for irregular migrants.
Authorities did not disclose the nationality of the victims.
According to local authorities, the migrants were traveling clandestinely, huddled inside the cargo compartment of the truck, whose driver had lost control due to excessive speed.
The state governor, Rutilio Escandón, confirmed the accident, which occurred on a stretch of highway that links the city of Chiapa de Corzo to Tuxtla Gutiérrez, and expressed his solidarity with the victims.
Transporting migrants by truck is one of the most common methods used by coyotes to move these people across Mexican territory, with the aim of reaching the country’s northern border and trying to cross into the United States.
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