One person was killed and 81 others were injured when a truck full of Central American migrants overturned on a highway in southern Mexico en route to the United States, Veracruz officials said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, near the southeastern city of San Andres Tustla, about 515 kilometers from the Mexican capital, on a section of Carretera 180, the highway that reaches Texas.
"The majority of the injured are from Guatemala, while" others are from Honduras, "the Mexican National Guard said in a statement, without elaborating on the seriousness of their condition.
Human rights activists have long warned that the Mexican authorities' tougher policy toward immigrants is likely to push people trying to reach US territory illegally deeper into the shadows, forcing them to turn to traffickers and choose insecure people. methods of movement.
Reuters photojournalist lens rushing to the scene of the accident recorded a white medium-sized truck in a ditch with the driver's window in pieces.
Mexico's center-left President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, under pressure from US President Donald Trump, has ordered the National Guard, a new body of military and federal police, not to allow immigrants to cross the border. The migration flow has decreased dramatically since the summer of 2019.
Most of the injured were taken to two nearby hospitals, the Veracruz Civil Protection Secretariat said.
Source: politis