Three migrants were killed and 18 injured, including seven seriously, on Tuesday March 15 in the accident of the smugglers' van transporting them, an official source said.
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Seven Cubans are seriously injured and it is reported that three people have died but we do not know their nationality
," Carlos Escalante, director of the government cabinet in charge of migration issues in the state of Veracruz (southeast ) where the accident occurred, on the highway between Tinaja and Cosoleacaque.
Last week, a pregnant Nicaraguan woman died after being abandoned with several dozen migrants in a truck driven by human traffickers, in the state of Coahuila, bordering the United States where Central American migrants dream of going. crossing Mexico.
On December 9, 56 migrants died in the accident of a trailer truck carrying 160 illegal immigrants on a highway in the state of Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala.
The victims were from Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Ecuador.
Following a Supreme Court decision, the United States has reactivated a program that forces migrants to wait in Mexico for the response to their asylum request on the other side of the border.
More than 190,000 undocumented migrants were identified in Mexico between January and September 2021, three times more than the previous year.
And 74,300 were expelled.
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