This Thursday, a passenger bus carrying 54 immigrants, most of them of Venezuelan origin, collided with a truck on a highway in the state of San Luis Potosí, in northern Mexico. The accident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday on Highway 57.
The National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico, stated in a statement that after the crash several agents and rescuers helped the South American migrants who were injured, although the bus driver died due to the impact between the bus and a truck. The wounded will be given Visitor cards for Humanitarian Reasons to cross the border.
Given this, the rescue organizations helped several family groups from Colombia and Venezuela, who were left under the guardianship and assistance of the state representation of the Attorney for the Protection of Children and Adolescents. In the accident, 54 migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Brazil, Peru, and Chile are involved, and that eight injured were taken to the General Hospital of Matehuala and Clinic 14 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) where they will be supervised. during your recovery.
This accident occurs after the Government of Mexico announced at the beginning of the month that 49 immigrants were rescued after they were kidnapped on a passenger bus from the central state of San Luis Potosí to Nuevo León, in northern Mexico, by a group of hooded and armed men. According to the authorities, they were victims of Venezuelan, Honduran, Brazilian, Cuban, Haitian and Salvadoran origin.
The Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, stated in a press conference that the nationalities are seven from Venezuela, 19 from Honduras, two from Brazil, one from Cuba, 14 from Haiti and six from El Salvador. Besides that all were transferred to the delegation of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in San Luis Potosí.
With information from EFE
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