A crashed bus sits connected to a tow truck the facet of the street close to Villa de Tepelmeme, Oaxaca state in Mexico on Friday.

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A crashed bus sits connected to a tow truck the facet of the street close to Villa de Tepelmeme, Oaxaca state in Mexico on Friday.

Nemesio Méndez Jiménez/AP

MEXICO CITY — At least 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti died early Friday in a bus crash in southern Mexico, authorities stated.

Mexico’s National Immigration Institute initially reported 18 lifeless, however later lowered that determine. Prosecutors within the southern state of Oaxaca later stated there had been an overcount on account of among the our bodies being dismembered, and that the actual dying toll was 16.

Both sources stated the lifeless embody two ladies and three kids, and that 29 individuals had been injured. There was no quick info on their situation.

Photos from the scene confirmed the bus rolled over onto its facet on a curvy part of freeway within the southern state of Oaxaca. The reason behind the crash within the city of Tepelmeme, close to the border with the neighboring state of Puebla, is beneath investigation.

The institute stated a complete of 55 migrants, largely from Venezuela, had been aboard the car.

It was the most recent in a collection of migrant deaths in Mexico amid a surge in migrants touring towards the U.S. border. Because migration brokers usually raid common buses, migrants and smugglers usually hunt down dangerous types of transportation, like unregulated buses, trains or freight vehicles.

Last week, 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others had been significantly injured after a freight truck they had been driving in crashed on a freeway within the neighboring state of Chiapas, close to the border with Guatemala.

The National Immigration Institute stated all the lifeless Cuban migrants had been ladies, and certainly one of them was beneath 18.

The Institute stated the driving force of the car had apparently been dashing and misplaced management of the truck, which was carrying 27 migrants on the time. The driver fled the scene.

Mexican authorities typically prohibit migrants with out correct paperwork from shopping for tickets for normal buses, so these with out the cash to rent smugglers usually rent poorly-driven, poorly-maintained buses that pace to keep away from being stopped. Or they stroll alongside the facet of highways, hitching rides aboard passing vehicles.

Last week, a truck flipped over on a freeway in Chiapas, killing two Central American migrants and injuring one other 27. And two Central American migrants died final week after attempting to board a shifting practice within the state of Coahuila close to the Texas border.