Nine of the 25 migrants crammed into a van that crossed a gap in a border barrier suffered serious injuries after the vehicle collided with a cargo truck with a trailer, in an accident that killed 13 people, it said Thursday. the California Highway Patrol.
Seventeen occupants in the 1997 Ford Expedition were Mexican, of whom 10 died and seven more were injured.
The Guatemalan government said Thursday that a 23-year-old Guatemalan woman died in the accident and two other citizens of the Central American country were seriously injured.
The driver of the truck was one of 13 killed in Tuesday’s crash in Imperial Valley, California, an agricultural region that produces many of the winter vegetables sold in supermarkets across the United States. The California Highway Patrol said three people suffered moderate injuries.
At the moment the nationality of the other three deceased and three who were injured is unknown or has not been revealed. The Mexican government said that 10 of its citizens died, although the US authorities have not released the identities, ages and nationalities of the deceased.
The minor erad victim was a 15-year-old girl, whose name and nationality have not been determined. The California Highway Patrol. He suffered serious injuries. The oldest victim was a 46-year-old woman from Guatemala City, who also suffered serious injuries.
The injured receive care at hospitals in San Diego, El Centro, Brawley and Palm Springs, California.
According to the Border Patrol, surveillance camera footage shows the Expedition and a Chevrolet Suburban entering an opening in the border wall about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the crash site.
The suburban, which was carrying 19 people, caught fire for unknown reasons on an interstate highway shortly after entering the United States. All the passengers got out of the vehicle and were detained by the Border Patrol, which assured that it was not pursuing either of the two vehicles.
The Expedition crashed into a trailer, whose driver, a 68-year-old man from El Centro, suffered serious injuries.
The breached barrier was made of steel bollards built before former President Donald Trump placed higher and deeper border divisions.
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