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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2006 
10 Guatemalan Migrants en Route to US Die in Mexico Truck Crash
 Associated Press
| | An immigration agent, right, guards women extradited from Mexico on Friday, at the Air Force Base in Guatemala City. About 23 Guatemalans were extradited from Mexico, where they were imprisoned for not having proper immigration documents and drug trafficking, a judicial authority announced Friday. (AP/Moises Castillo) |
Raudales Malpaso, Mexico – A speeding truck loaded with Guatemalan migrants en route to the United States collided head-on Wednesday with another truck in southern Mexico, killing 10 migrants and injuring 16, authorities said.
Eighty Guatemalans were packed inside the truck at the time of the collision on a bridge in Raudales Malpaso, about 60 miles northeast of Tuxtla Gutierrez, said Martin Rabanales, a spokesman for the state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala.
The truck carrying the migrants was traveling at 87 mph in a 50 mph zone and the truck driver was inexperienced, Rabanales said.
He said 10 Guatemalans were killed and at least 16 were critically injured.
It was the latest deadly road accident in Mexico. A packed bus plunged into a 650-foot ravine in eastern Mexico on April 18, killing 58 people traveling at the end of the country's Easter week holiday.
Both truck drivers fled the scene after Thursday's wreck, Rabanales said.
Mexico's National Immigration Institute issued a statement offering condolences to the families of the victims. It said relatives of the dead and injured would be given visas to enter Mexico.
Waves of Central Americans make their way across Mexico every year trying to cross the border into the United States, traveling overland on trains or along perilous Mexican highways, where deadly crashes are frequent. |
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