At least 53 migrants from Central America were killed Thursday in Chiapas state, southern Mexico when a truck flipped. Most of those deaths were reported to have been migrants tucked in the trailer of the truck hoping for a new life in the US.
Luis Manuel Garcia, the head of the Chiapas civil protection agency told Reuters news agency the truck crashed on a sharp curve on the highway between the city of Chiapa de Corzo and the state capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez.
"According to the statements of the survivors, most of them are from Guatemala," he said.
The civil protection services in Chiapas said 58 other people were injured in the accident, with men, women and children among the victims.
