Workers remove the container from the trailer of a truck that crashed with migrants aboard in Chiapas state, Mexico, killing dozens. Photo: AFP
Workers remove the container from the trailer of a truck that crashed with migrants aboard in Chiapas state, Mexico, killing dozens. Photo: AFP
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Dozens of migrants heading for US killed in horror truck crash in Mexico

  • At least 54 people died when a freight truck crammed with as many as 200 people from Guatemala and Honduras tipped over in southern Mexico
  • It was one of the worst single-day death tolls for migrants in Mexico since the 2010 massacre of 72 migrants by the Zetas drug cartel

Associated Press
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Updated: 3:19pm, 10 Dec, 2021

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Workers remove the container from the trailer of a truck that crashed with migrants aboard in Chiapas state, Mexico, killing dozens. Photo: AFP
Workers remove the container from the trailer of a truck that crashed with migrants aboard in Chiapas state, Mexico, killing dozens. Photo: AFP
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