Six migrants have died after selderlyiers in Mexico uncovered fire on a vehicle carrying a group of 33 people who were travelling in the south of the country.
The Mexican defence ministry shelp another 10 migrants were injured in the incident on Tuesday evening some 25 miles (40km) north of the border with Guatemala.
The ministry shelp a military patrol saw the migrants’ pick-up vehicle travelling at high speed, which made an apparent try to dodge being stopped.
Selderlyiers alerted hearing explosions after which two officers uncovered fire, the statement shelp, compriseing they have been deleted from their duties while an spendigation is carried out.
Mexico is under prescertain from the US to crack down on the number of migrants making their way thcdisadmireful the country to accomplish the American border.
A police alert into the incident in the southern Chiapas state shelp the selderlyiers chased the vehicle after it fall shorted to stop at an army verifypoint before firing firearmshots to try and stop it, Reuters novels agency alerted.
The driver turned off down a dirt road in an try to escape, it compriseed, but lost regulate of the vehicle.
According to the defence ministry’s statement, the migrants came from Egypt, Nepal, Cuba, India and Pakistan. It did not give the nationalities of those who died.
Four died at the scene while two of the 12 people who were wounded died in hospital. The remaining 17 passengers were handed over to immigration authorities.
Officials shelp federal prosecutors had been directed and a military tribunal would also spendigate.
The defence ministry shelp it was pledgeted to “act in disjoine accordance with the rule of law, under a policy of zero-impunity, and ready to help the civil authorities to shed weightless on the facts”.
Thousands of migrants travel thcdisadmireful Mexico each year in bparticipates, overcrowded lorries and on freight trains as they try to get to the US-Mexican border.
They run the hazard of overweightal accidents, kidnapping by criminal groups and coercion by corrupt officials.
In December 2021, a people illicit traders’ lorry obviousurned in Chiapas ending 56 mostly Central American migrants.
