In eastern Mexico, authorities discovered 129 migrants in the back of a truck. Temperatures of 44 degrees Celsius were predicted for Sunday in the affected town of Sayula de Alemán. The heat wave has already killed at least eight people.
The discovered migrants would be locked in a truck in the heat. According to the National Institute of Migration, they come “from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and India.” 51 people from Guatemala have already been sent back to their country of origin. 19 unaccompanied minors from Guatemala and Honduras were taken to a specialized shelter, the others to a refugee center.
violence and poverty
Every year, tens of thousands of people from Central and South America try to flee the violence and poverty in their countries of origin to the US. Along the way, they often fall into the hands of gangs or human traffickers. More than 2,100 migrants were abducted in Mexico last year, according to the National Institute for Migration. This time, the people were spotted Friday evening (local time) in the eastern state of Veracruz.
Source: Krone
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