At least 10 migrants died and 25 had been injured early Sunday when a cargo truck clandestinely carrying them overturned on a freeway within the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, native officers reported.

The accident passed off close to the border with Guatemala, the report stated. It was the second deadly crash in lower than every week involving migrants.

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A supply within the prosecutor’s workplace who spoke on grounds of anonymity instructed AFP the victims had been apparently from Cuba and all had been girls, together with one minor.

The accident occurred on a stretch of freeway alongside the Pacific coast between the cities of Pijijiapan and Tonala, the place migrants typically journey as they try to succeed in the United States.

The truck, whose physique was partially constructed of wooden, was destroyed, with the migrants’ garments, luggage and backpacks strewn round it.

On Thursday, two migrants died when a truck overturned within the municipality of Mezcalapa, additionally in Chiapas state.

Thousands of migrants from completely different nations have been touring throughout Mexico in buses, trailers and freight trains in an try to succeed in the United States.

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