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No less than 54 individuals have been killed and handfuls harmed after a truck they were going in slammed in southern Mexico, specialists said.
Around 100 individuals, asserted to be transients from Central America, were inside the truck when it toppled and hit a scaffold in Chiapas state.
Photos from the scene show the casualties lying on the walkway close to the packed truck.
There were additionally bodies fixed on the ground covered with white material.
"It is one of the most noticeably awful episodes in Mexico, with 58 individuals harmed and others genuinely harmed," said Luis Manuel Garcia, top of the Chiapas non military personnel guard unit.
He said the casualties included men, ladies, and kids. Their ethnicity has not been affirmed, yet neighborhood authorities say the greater part of those inside the truck are outsiders from Honduras and Guatemala.
The truck was supposedly speeding prior to losing heading in a corner and hitting a regular citizen span on the fundamental street prompting Chiapas state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez.
Chiapas, a state lining Guatemala, is a middle for some undocumented travelers to the United States.
A huge number of transients escaping destitution and brutality in focal America attempt to get through Mexico every year fully intent on showing up in the United States.
A significant number of them pay for dealers, who carry them into perilous trucks on this long excursion.
The United States-Mexico line is one of the world's most hazardous lines, as per information from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
This year alone around 650 individuals have kicked the bucket at the line, attempting to cross, more than in some other year since IOM started establishing standards.
There are likewise numerous passings on the hazardous outing to the line, be that as it may, such passings are hard to record, the IOM said in an assertion.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador depicted the mishap as "very difficult" and composed on twitter that he "lamented the mishap".
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