April 13, 2023, 9:00 PM
April 13, 2023, 9:00 PM
The National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico reported this Thursday the discovery of 209 migrants from Central and South America in an abandoned trailer on a highway near the town of Nuevo Teapa, in the state of Veracruz.
Among the migrants who were located on Wednesday night there are 161 adults from Guatemala; 6 from Honduras, another 6 from El Salvador and 5 from Ecuador, according to a statement from the INM.
Of these, 23 people traveled in nine family units and 25 minors from Guatemala traveled alone, who remained under the guardianship of the state’s Comprehensive Development System for the Family (DIF).
One of the people, who had symptoms of suffocation, was taken to a nearby hospital.
Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, the statement said, INM and National Guard agents located the vehicle, from inside which cries for help were heard from the migrants, who were in overcrowded conditions.
“Immediately, one of the doors was opened, from which adult women and men began to appear, as well as minors who asked to leave to get air and water,” the INM explained.
The box of the trailer in which they were found has tubular structures and planks to condition a second floor “in order to transport a greater number of foreign migrants,” the statement detailed.
