Over 50 Dead After Truck Smuggling Migrants in Mexico Crashed and Overturned
An injure person is moved by rescue personnel at an accident near Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico.
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Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico (AP) -- Survivors of the horrific truck crash in Mexico that killed 55 migrants and injured more than a hundred recounted from their hospital beds how their location inside the truck determined who lived and who died.
Those unlucky enough to be riding jammed against the fragile walls of the freight container almost certainly died, survivors said. Those in the middle of the packed group survived, cushioned by their fellow migrants as the container flipped onto the road.