Posted on 12/09/2021 7:19:10 PM PST by BenLurkin
A cargo truck jammed with people who appeared to be Central American migrants rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge over on a highway in southern Mexico on Thursday, killing at least 49 people and injuring nearly five dozen others, authorities reported.
Luis Manuel Moreno, the head of the Chiapas state civil defense office, said a preliminary estimate listed 49 dead and 58 injured. He said about 21 of the injured had serious wounds and were taken to local hospitals.
The crash occurred on a highway leading toward the Chiapas state capital. Photos from the scene showed victims strewn across the pavement and inside the truck’s freight compartment.
Later, rescue workers arranged the dead in rows of white sheets, side by side, on the asphalt.
Moreno said that it appeared that speed and the weight of the truck’s human cargo may have caused it to tip over, and that as the vehicle toppled over it hit the base of a steel pedestrian bridge. There was a curve in the road near the accident scene that may have contributed to the crash.
That meant at least 107 people were crowed into the vehicle. It is not unusual for freight trucks in Mexico to be carrying so many people in migrant-smuggling operations in southern Mexico.
Rescue workers who first arrived at the scene and who were not authorized to be quoted by name said that even more migrants had been aboard the truck when it crashed and had fled for fear of being detained by immigration agents.
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So sad… hey, what’s for dinner?
It’s fair to say that their blood in on Joetato Brain’s hands.
unexpected..
Casualties of that magnitude are usually reserved for India.
If they had stayed in their own countries, they’d be alive right now.
"Those who spoke to survivors said the migrants told of boarding the truck in Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, and of paying between $2,500 and $3,500 to be transported to Mexico’s central state of Puebla. Once there, they would presumably have contracted with another set of migrant smugglers to take them to the U.S. border."
There were more than 100 people jammed into the truck. That's between $250,000 and $350,000 in the pockets of a criminal enterprise from one truckload of people. No wonder there are so many people crossing into the United States illegally at great risk to themselves, their children, and our nation.
Horrible. These poor people are being lured up here and many of them die in the attempt to even get here. Thanks Brandon.
First thought was “ single vehicle accident?”
“the rats got off and the bums got on, if they fix the tracks we’ll be in hell by dawn...”
If you do something illegal and die from your own hand, it seems fitting.
Now if we just machine gunned people crossing the border illegally years ago when all this started, maybe we would have killed 10 to 20 people; and all the people killed today would still be alive.
ML/NJ
“Now if we just machine gunned people crossing the border illegally years ago when all this started, maybe we would have killed 10 to 20 people; and all the people killed today would still be alive.”
That’s a fair point - if ANY country in the West gets the balls to defend their own borders, then the flow CEASES. After all...how many ‘refugees’ are trying to get into Japan (answer: zero).
Something I just read said “54 dead, at least 50 injured.” *counts on fingers* So, there were like 100 people in one trailer?
More blood on Biden’s hands and growing.
So, there were like 100 people in one trailer
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In coach at least.......business and first class figures were not available.
If there could be a "reply of the week" this one would be my fave. Not that the others aren't good. THEY'RE ALL GOOD!!!
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