The Mexican government said Monday (6) that Mexican authorities have found 103 unaccompanied minors among a group of 343 people in an abandoned truck in eastern Mexico.
“These are 103 unaccompanied minors, the majority of whom are from Guatemala,” the Mexican National Institute of Migration (INM) reports.
Also traveling in the truck were 212 adults from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador, as well as 28 other people “who form various family nuclei in Guatemala and El Salvador,” according to immigration authorities.
The car, which was located Sunday night (5) on a road in the state of Veracruz, was without a driver, but the agents of the National Institute and the local prosecutor’s office discovered that there were people in the trailer.
“The migrants wore colored bracelets as a means of identification,” the statement said. These attachments are often used by traffickers who transport foreigners to the border between Mexico and the United States.
The truck’s bucket had a double floor of metal structures and fans attached to the bottom, as well as roof vents, the National Press Institute reported.
Minors who traveled alone and their families were under the custody of the social assistance authorities in Veracruz, while adults would determine their legal status before the immigration authority.
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