15 dead, 36 injured in Mexico migrant bus crash
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The accident is reported in central Mexico on a highway usually used to transport migrants
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An injured woman is moved by rescue personnel from the site of an accident near Tuxtla Gutierrez in Chiapas state, Mexico on December 9, 2021. (AP)
A bus carrying largely Venezuelan migrants collided with a freight truck in central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 36, according to local officials.
The Puebla state administration did not disclose how many of the deaths were migrants, but the majority of the casualties were undoubtedly bus passengers, and the authorities indicated the majority of them were Venezuelans.
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The collision occurred early Tuesday on a highway leading south into Oaxaca state. Migrant smugglers regularly utilize this route, and accidents involving smugglers' cars are prevalent in Mexico because they frequently utilize risky vehicles and drivers, squeeze too many migrants in, or attempt to elude authorities.
Five Honduran migrants were killed and 18 were injured after their van collided on a route on Mexico's southern Gulf coast in July.
Migrants regularly utilize trucks and buses to cross the border into the United States.
In 2021, a truck transporting migrants collapsed on a highway near Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, killing 56 people.
Early this month, a 3-year-old girl on one of Texas' migrant buses died on the route to Chicago, according to officials, the first death disclosed by the state since it began transporting hundreds of refugees and migrants across the US-Mexico border last year.
