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Mexico reported on Sunday the discovery of three bodies of possible migrants who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande on the border with Texas.
The information was known through the Twitter account of the National Institute of Migration.
The Mexican body said no identification was found on two of the bodies, but a third carried documents indicating he was from Nicaragua.
In addition, three migrants were found alive but unable to continue crossing the river due to low water temperatures and strong currents. A woman, a 2-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, all from Honduras, were rescued. After the rescue they were taken to a shelter in the border city of Piedras Negras.
This is the latest incident in a series of migrant deaths in Mexico. Last week, seven migrants were killed and 24 injured when a bus fell off a cliff in the northern Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. Among the dead was a pregnant woman, and two of the injured were minors.
The nationality of the seven dead has not yet been released, but of those who survived, 11 were from El Salvador, seven from Honduras and four from Cuba. A Panamanian and a Mexican were also injured.
Frequently, migrant smugglers use cargo trucks and buses to traverse Mexico on their way to the United States.
Last Tuesday, Veracruz state authorities reported that six migrants drowned off the coast of that state in the Gulf of Mexico and that one was missing. Apparently they were all from Honduras. Sometimes smugglers take migrants in open boats across the gulf to evade immigration checkpoints on the highways.
Four migrants, also Hondurans, were pulled alive from the ocean after their 7-meter (25-foot) boat apparently capsized off the coast.
In another incident, immigration officials reported last week that a migrant father and his 7-year-old son were found dead in the Suchiate River, which marks the border between Mexico and Guatemala. According to officials, the 36-year-old man and his son were from El Salvador.
Migrants often cross border rivers on foot, swim, or in rafts and boats to reach the United States.
[Con información de AP]
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