Local authorities said at least 10 migrants died and 25 others were injured on Sunday when a truck in which they were traveling illegally overturned on a highway in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala.
The authorities’ preliminary report shows “ten dead and 25 injured.”
A prosecutor’s source, who did not want to be named, told AFP that the victims would be women, including a minor, from Cuba.
The accident occurred in the early hours of the morning on the stretch of highway that connects Pijijiapan to Tonalá, on the Pacific coast of Chiapas state, where many migrants coming to the United States come from.
This is the second such accident in less than a week. Two migrants were killed and 27 others injured on Thursday when the truck carrying them overturned in the same state.
Thousands of migrants of different nationalities cross Mexico in buses, trucks and even freight trains on their way to the United States.
The US Border Patrol officially registered 1.8 million migrant crossings at its southern border between October 2022 and August 2023.