55 Dead After Truck Smuggling People Crashes in Mexico: Officials

Emergency crew assist an injured person after a trailer crash in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas killed at least 49 people, most of them migrants from Central America, officials said on Thursday, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico, on Dec. 9, 2021. El La Mira/via Reuters

A truck that was smuggling mostly Central American people flipped over in southern Mexico, killing dozens, officials said on Friday.

Rutilio Escandon, the governor of the state of Chiapas where the crash occurred, confirmed Friday that the death toll rose to 55. Previously, he confirmed that about 105 people were injured, and Mexico’s attorney general said Thursday that three victims were “seriously injured.”