Mexico City.- The National Institute of Migration (INM) assured a total of 209 migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador and Honduras who were overcrowded in an abandoned trailer box on the Villahermosa-Coatzacoalcos highway, near the town of Nuevo Teapa, Veracruz. .
The agency reported that, with the help of the National Guard –shortly before midnight on Wednesday, April 12–, it was possible to locate the transport, in which cries for help were heard.
The federal authorities proceeded to open one of the doors, finding 144 adults, 23 members of family nuclei and 25 unaccompanied minors.
According to the INM, the migrants asked for help to get out of the box where they were trapped, to get air and water.
He said that the dry box of the trailer had tubular structures and planks to condition a second floor or attic, to illegally transport a greater number of foreign migrants.
Members of Grupo Beta Acayucan from the INM emergency transported a person who presented symptoms of suffocation, who is already recovering in a local hospital.
144 adult women and men from Guatemala were identified; six from Honduras, six from El Salvador and five from Ecuador with an irregular stay in Mexico.
In the group, 23 migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador and Honduras were found traveling in nine family nuclei; as well as 25 unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, who will remain under the guardianship of the entity’s System for Comprehensive Development for the Family.
