A bus carrying largely Venezuelan migrants has crashed right into a freight truck in central Mexico, killing no less than 15 individuals and injuring 36
ByThe Related Press
August 22, 2023, 12:57 PM
MEXICO CITY — A bus carrying largely Venezuelan migrants crashed right into a freight truck Tuesday in central Mexico, killing no less than 15 individuals and injuring 36, native authorities stated.
The federal government of Puebla state didn’t say how most of the useless had been migrants, however presumably many of the casualties had been among the many bus passengers, and the federal government stated most of them had been Venezuelans.
The accident occurred early Tuesday on a freeway that runs south towards Oaxaca state. The route is incessantly utilized by migrant smugglers.
As a result of smugglers usually use unsafe automobiles and drivers, cram too many migrants in or attempt to evade police, accidents involving these automobiles usually are not unusual in Mexico.
In July, 5 Honduran migrants had been killed and one other 18 injured when the van they had been using in crashed on a street on Mexico’s southern Gulf coast.
In February 17 migrants had been killed when the bus they had been touring in crashed in Puebla.
Migrants incessantly use vans and buses to journey by Mexico to achieve the U.S. border.
In 2021 a truck carrying migrants overturned on a freeway close to the southern metropolis of Tuxtla Gutierrez, killing 56 individuals.
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