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July 29, 2022

Central American Migrants Narrowly Escape Suffocation in Abandoned Trailer in Mexico
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In Veracruz, Mexico, scores of migrants who were left by human smugglers
in an abandoned freight trailer on the side of a highway had to break
their way out to avoid suffocation. On Wednesday, people at a nearby gas
station discovered the migrants after they bashed holes in the trailer's
roof. Medics treated survivors for knee and ankle injuries.

Cristóbal Cisneros Valencia: "We were told there were close to 400
immigrants traveling in the trailer. When they started to feel
suffocated, they broke through the roof of the trailer, and most of them
jumped out. That is why most of the injuries we treated were ankle and
knee fractures."

The migrants are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. This comes a
month after 53 migrants from Central America and Mexico died in San
Antonio, Texas, after they were left in a sweltering, abandoned trailer.


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