Photo: Secretary of State Public Security / EFE
For: EFE Updated 03 May 2022, 22: 05 pm EDT
A total of 310 migrants from Central and South American countries were found this Tuesday when they were traveling overcrowded and with symptoms of severe dehydration in the box of a trailer that was traveling through the state of Veracruz, eastern Mexico, reported local authorities.
The finding It happened when the vehicle was traveling on the Veracruz-Puebla highway, near the municipality of Córdoba, where the foreigners from Guatemala, Ecuador, and Honduras were rescued. , Cuba, Nicaragua and Chile, who intended to reach the northern border of Mexico and later cross into the United States.
This happened today in Veracruz. They were 300 migrants crammed into this trailer. The images horrify.
An accident or trapped without air, would have been one of the worst tragedies of migrants in Mexico. pic.twitter.com/wPjOKY1ZJd
– Pedro Ultreras (@pedroultreras) May 4, 2022
According to local sources, the vehicle of The cargo was located at a gas station by police officers, who, during a routine check, found the migrants in subhuman conditions.
With the support of emergency services personnel and the health sector in the area, the 310 foreigners, of whom were 195 men and 115 women, including two pregnant women.
Lifeguards from the Mexican Red Cross attended the scene to 03 migrants, who presented severe dehydration, while After five of them were transferred to hospitals in the region, two of them in serious condition and three in stable condition.
In addition, the local authorities activated a temporary shelter in the city of Córdoba, where they gave food and water to foreigners with an irregular stay in Mexico.
Traveling in crowded trailers is one of the most dangerous ways migrants use to cross clandestinely Mexico, bound for the United States, something for which they pay thousands of dollars to traffickers.
Under this modality, on December 9, 550 recorded a tragic accident, when a trailer overturned on the highway from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Chiapa de Corzo, in the state of Chiapas, in which they died 56 migrants.
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