10 Cuban Migrants Are Killed in a Freight Truck Crash in Southern Mexico, 17 Seriously Injured

10 Cuban Migrants Are Killed in a Freight Truck Crash in Southern Mexico, 17 Seriously Injured
A naval police officer patrols the banks of the Suchiate river on the Mexico-Guatemala border in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas State, Mexico, on June 17, 2019. Quetzalli Blanco/AFP/Getty Images
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TAPACHULA, Chiapas—At least 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were seriously injured after a freight truck they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala.

The National Immigration Institute said all of the dead Cuban migrants were women, and one of them was under 18.