Mexico The Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that six people were shot dead by soldiers chasing suspicious vehicles on a highway in the southern state of Chiapas. Immigrants Gone with life.
According to the AFP news agency, the Ministry of Defense said, without specifying the nationalities of those killed in the incident, that the patrol officers found 33 migrants from Egypt, Nepal, Cuba, India and Pakistan in the suspicious vehicles.
The incident took place on October 1, the day Claudia Scheinbaum took office as Mexico’s new president, vowing to respect human rights and oppose repression by security forces.
The Ministry of Defense in its statement further said that the two soldiers who fired have been removed from their duties pending the completion of the investigation.
According to the statement, patrolling officers saw a vehicle followed by two flatbed trucks, which are used by criminals, speeding and apparently trying to escape.
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The statement said: ‘Army personnel heard gunshots and two soldiers stopped a flatbed truck with their weapons.’
It was further said that four of the migrants died on the spot while two of the 12 injured died in the hospital.
The 17 unharmed migrants were handed over to immigration authorities, the statement said.
According to a police report, soldiers chased a truck after it failed to stop at a checkpoint and fired shots to stop it.
According to the report, in an attempt to escape, the driver drove the truck onto a dirt road but lost control of the vehicle.
Thousands of migrants from many countries try to reach the U.S.-Mexico border each year via buses, trailers and freight trains through Mexico.
Along the way, they also face accidents, kidnappings by criminal gangs and extortion by corrupt officials.
In December 2021, a truck overturned in Chiapas, killing 56 migrants from Central America and injuring dozens. There were about 160 people in this truck.
According to the International Organization for Migration, since 2014, more than 9,800 migrants have died or gone missing while trying to reach the United States through Mexico.
In March 2023, 40 migrants died in a fire at a detention center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Security camera footage of the incident shows that neither immigration nor security officials tried to evacuate the migrants after the fire broke out.
In recent years Mexico has beefed up its public security force, which Amnesty International accused of using ‘unnecessary and excessive force’ in April.
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2024-10-03 21:55:22
