Five Honduran migrants, including a child, died in a traffic accident in Tabasco, southeastern Mexicothat also left 18 injuredall of the same nationality, the National Institute of Migration (INM) reported on Friday.
Although the accident occurred on Thursday, the agency revealed in a statement on Friday that at least 23 people were in an Urvan-type truck that suffered a mishap on the Villahermosa-Coatzacoalcos highwayat the height of the common Pico de Oro.
“Of the total number of foreign people transported, 10 are girls, boys and adolescents; as well as 11 women and 2 adult men. Four adult women lost their lives at the scene and a child under 2 years of age died in the hospital.specified the INM.
The injured, he stressed, were immediately transferred to the Cárdenas Regional Hospital and the El Carmen Private Clinic by federal Immigration agents and personnel from Grupos Beta, who arrived at the scene to provide the necessary care.
In addition, The INM maintains communication with the Honduran Consulate, which will be in charge of the procedures to claim the bodies of the deceasedin addition to the assistance and transfer of injured foreigners.
“It should be noted that two adult men were discharged from the hospital, including the father of the deceased minor, and they were transferred to the Villahermosa Immigration Station, where they were given psychological support, medical evaluation, and food,” the INM specified.
The dependencewho mourned the death of the five Hondurans, it also announced visitor cards for humanitarian reasons and hotel accommodation for the victims.
“Regarding a child under the age of nine, he was referred to the Children’s Hospital in the city of Villahermosa, in the company of his mother, since he required surgery; His state of health is reported to be stable, ”he specified.
Traveling crammed into different vehicles is one of the most dangerous ways migrants use to cross Mexico irregularly to the United States.for which they pay thousands of dollars to the traffickers.
On December 9, 2021, a tragedy occurred when a trailer packed with migrants overturned on the highway from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Chiapa de Corzo, in the southeastern state of Chiapas. accident in which 56 migrants died.
Mexico is experiencing a record migratory flow, with 2.76 million undocumented immigrants detained at the border with the United States in fiscal year 2022 and, according to data provided by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the migratory flow increased that year by 8 % in the country.
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