MEXICO CITY: Fearing capture or something else, a truck driver transporting migrants to the US fled, leaving dozens of migrants in a container.
For a better future, people from poor countries try to go to rich countries by risking their lives, some are successful in this, but many people lose their lives during this dangerous journey before reaching their destination.
Another such incident has happened in Mexico, where a truck driver carrying migrants to America fled leaving more than 100 migrants on the highway, but luckily all the migrants were safe and there were no casualties.
Officials say the migrants were found in a cargo trailer on a highway in the eastern state of Veracruz trying to get to the US. .
In such a situation, when the migrants started suffocating inside the container, they started shouting for help, hearing which the nearby people reached and broke the container and took them out.
Officials say that during this time, due to suffocation of several people, the condition of many people had deteriorated and they were immediately transferred to the hospital, where they are being given medical assistance.
Mexican authorities say that 94 migrants have been rescued from the truck and handed over to immigration officials, where they are being questioned, while about 100 have managed to escape.
Officials say the migrants are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, all without travel documents and trying to enter the United States illegally.
It should be noted that the bodies of more than 50 migrants were found in a semi-truck in the US state of Texas in June last month. All the people from Mexico and other South American countries died due to suffocation and extreme heat.
