(Updates number and nationality of injured migrants)
Tegucigalpa, October 15 (EFE). – The majority of migrants injured this Sunday in a bus accident in western Honduras that left at least four people dead and twenty injured were of Venezuelan nationality, the police corps reported. Firefighters.
One of the four fatalities was Honduran Yostin Vásquez, who was apparently an assistant bus driver and had recently taken over the wheel from his partner Leonel Girón.
The other three people who died were two men and one woman who did not have any identification documents, so it can be assumed that they were foreign migrants.
According to the published list of injured people, 18 people are of Venezuelan nationality, three from Cuba, two from Ecuador and four from Honduras.
It appears that most of the injured migrants did not want to be taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
According to local media, the collective transport with around 60 passengers was on its way to the border with Guatemala.
The accident of the bus, which plunged into a ravine about ten meters high until it plunged into a river, occurred in the Santa Rosa de Copán sector, in the Copán department in western Honduras, at around 3:30 a.m. local time (9:30 a.m.). , according to the first official reports.
The territory of Honduras is used daily by thousands of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, trying to reach the United States irregularly.
According to the National Migration Institute, Ecuadorians, Cubans, Haitians, Asians and Africans are taking part.
The National Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras (Conadeh) has registered more than twenty foreign migrants who died on Honduran territory between 2022 and 2023, including children and adults, mainly due to illness.
List of foreigners injured in the accident:
Venezuelans
.1- César Paredes (42 years old)
.2- Alexander Parra (57)
.3- Rosmery Rivas (20)
.4- Indira Varroza (45)
.5- Jefry Alexander Peña González (23)
.6- José Gregorio Mayora (26)
.7- Roger Bermúdez (43)
.8- Kely Valencia (26)
.9-Carlos Valencia (23)
10- Cleibinson Riasco (25)
11- Enrique Javier Riasco (25)
12- Fran Gonzalez (37)
13- Maria Jimena (31)
14- Arturo Puente (60)
15- Eduardo Ramones (25)
16- Veronica Puente (9)
17- Victoria Puente (11)
18- Karen Mendez (30)
Cuban
1) Ayurebis Pérez Gómez (68 years old)
2) Alexander del Valle (38)
3) Alexander from the Valley (9)
Ecuador
1- Antony Esmeraldas (21 years old)
2- Ana Paguay (32). EFE
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