Migrants escape from suffocating people-smuggling trailer in Mexico

400 migrants were being transported in the trailer, near the small town of Acayucan

Mexican authorities rescued nearly 100 migrants who escaped from a stifling trailer being driven by a people smuggler in the coastal state of Veracruz, Qazet.az reports according to Reuters.

About 400 migrants were being transported in the trailer, near the small town of Acayucan, when they began to suffocate, authorities in the area told Reuters.

"They broke through the roof of the trailer because they were suffocating and since there was a gas station nearby, the employees there helped them escape," said Jose Dominguez, director of civil protection in nearby Oluta.

"Most of them jumped off," paramedic Cristobal Cisneros said, adding that many had been treated for ankle or knee fractures.