Mexico.- A Dominican is among the survivors of a tragic accident that has left 17 dead and 40 injured in Puebla, Mexico.
The Dominican has been identified as Fani Chesil Herrera Rodríguez, 36 years old, from Baní, Peravia. She is receiving medical attention and underwent surgery due to various facial traumas.
The accident occurred last Sunday on a highway that leads from Oaxaca, where 15 of the 45 passengers died at the accident site, and two others died in the hospital. Five people were hospitalized and are in critical condition, and another eight suffered minor injuries.
According to Julio Huerta, Secretary of the Interior of Puebla, all the deceased were emigrants, some from Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Central America.
Migrants often use vans and buses to travel through Mexico to reach the border with the United States because they are often crowded into unsafe, illegal, or clandestine transport to “fulfill the American dream.”
It is recalled that on February 7, 14 Central American migrants also died in a car accident registered in Nuevo León.
In 2021, a van with migrants on board overturned on a highway near Tuxtla Gutiérrez, killing 56 people in one of the worst accidents of its kind.
Mexico.- A Dominican is among the survivors of a tragic accident that has left 17 dead and 40 injured in Puebla, Mexico.
The Dominican has been identified as Fani Chesil Herrera Rodríguez, 36 years old, from Baní, Peravia. She is receiving medical attention and underwent surgery due to various facial traumas.
The accident occurred last Sunday on a highway that leads from Oaxaca, where 15 of the 45 passengers died at the accident site, and two others died in the hospital. Five people were hospitalized and are in critical condition, and another eight suffered minor injuries.
According to Julio Huerta, Secretary of the Interior of Puebla, all the deceased were emigrants, some from Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Central America.
Migrants often use vans and buses to travel through Mexico to reach the border with the United States because they are often crowded into unsafe, illegal, or clandestine transport to “fulfill the American dream.”
It is recalled that on February 7, 14 Central American migrants also died in a car accident registered in Nuevo León.
In 2021, a van with migrants on board overturned on a highway near Tuxtla Gutiérrez, killing 56 people in one of the worst accidents of its kind.
