At least 18 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti died this Friday in a road accident in the Mexican state of Oaxaca (south), the Attorney General’s Office of that state reported.
“The accident on the highway left as a preliminary result the death of 18 people (two women, three minors and 13 men), all of them from Venezuela and Haiti,” the agency said in a statement about the incident, which left Also 27 injured.
The accident occurred around 05:00 local time (11:00 GMT), when the bus where the foreigners were traveling lost control and overturned on the highway that connects the cities of Oaxaca and Cuacnopalan, in the neighboring state of Puebla (center). the Prosecutor’s Office specified.
“Initially, it is also known that there are at least 27 injured passengers, who were transferred to nearby hospitals for medical attention,” the statement added.
The tragedy occurs just five days after another road accident in the state of Chiapas (southern), where 10 Cuban women who were traveling clandestinely in a cargo truck died, including a minor.
Given the reinforcement of security by Mexico to combat irregular migrant trafficking, thousands of people of different nationalities cross the country in buses, trailers, vehicles in poor condition or freight trains.
On the way, however, they suffer accidents or attacks from criminals and sometimes from the authorities themselves.
A report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released on September 12 revealed that the border between the United States and Mexico was the “most dangerous land migratory route in the world” in 2022, with 686 dead or missing.