The National Institute of Migration (INM) reported this weekend that at least four migrants died in a traffic accident between Matehuala and Saltillo, Nuevo León, while another 57 immigrants were injured.
According to a report from the immigration authorities, the fatal accident occurred between a bus in which the migrants were traveling, and a truck, it occurred in the early morning hours. The deceased were identified as Pedro Bartolo Urbina, while the injured are Aracely Sánchez, Rogelio Alexander Vélez, Santos Elizabeth Mejía, Ever Javier Laínez, Bresy Inestroza and Jairo Andrés Antúnez.
Among the injured, who were taken to a hospital in Saltillo. Faced with the deceased of Honduran origin, the chancellor of the Central American country, Eduardo Enrique Reina, said in a message on Twitter, that on the instructions of the Honduran president, Xiomara Castro, “we are monitoring and supporting our Embassy, Consulate and Mexican authorities ” to the victims of the accident that occurred in Mexico.
This same week, the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) reported the death of a migrant, just 9 years old, after running out of water in the Arizona desert, when he was traveling with his mother and another brother. According to the child’s mother, she and her children crossed into the United States with another unknown migrant at dawn on June 15.
The death of the minor was confirmed on June 17, when the 9-year-old boy was recovered after going missing with his mother and brother in the desert near Tubac, in the state of Arizona. The minor’s mother told immigration authorities that her son “had no previous medical problems and she believed that the heat contributed to his medical complications during the walk.”
According to a statement from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the woman, whose name and nationality have not been released, said her 9-year-old son was experiencing seizures. About half an hour later, Tubac firefighters and Border Patrol agents found the family in a remote location where a helicopter could not land and difficult for an ambulance to access.
With information from D.W.
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