A US bound truck smuggling 170
migrants crashed on a highway in Veracruz, Mexico, on Wednesday, January 12
injuring 38 of which 8 were children.
The trailer was heading to Mexico
City when it crashed into a concrete road divider. The truck was disguised with
fake logos to look like an official Mexican Food Ministry vehicle, bound for
the US.
About 132 migrants including the
driver fled the scene before authorities arrived while the injured ones were
taking into custody by the Veracruz State public security ministry.
The truck had been traveling on
highway 150 D Veracruz-Puebla and bound for Mexico City on its way north to the
US when it crashed, Veracruz state public security ministry confirmed.
The National Institute of
Migration identified the 38 migrants as natives of El Salvador, Honduras and
Guatemala. All of the individuals were placed in custody of the immigration
agency for processing.
‘The migrants are being attended
to. We are also checking how they were transported and who was transporting
them,’ Secretary of the Interior Adán López said, as quoted by Mexican digital
news outlet López Doriga. ‘Our priority is the protection of migrants,
guaranteeing free transit.’
According to the Mexican
government data, more than 252,000 undocumented US bound migrants were
intercepted in Mexico between January 2021 and November 2021. At least 100,000
were deported during the same period
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