Salvadoran girl, 6, and driver killed after pickup truck smuggling child, her pregnant mother and eight other migrants to the US crashes in northeast Mexico
A six-year-old girl and her smuggler driver bound for the United States border were killed in northeast Mexico on Saturday after their pickup truck overturned.
Mariana Magaly Hernández Aguilar and the motorist were declared dead by cops and paramedics who rushed to the scene of the accident in the Nuevo León municipality of Galena, local media outlets reported.
Mexican news digital outlet Al DÃa reported that the driver, a Mexican national whose name has not been released, drove around a pothole before he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.
Nine other migrants on the truck were injured, including the girl's pregnant mother, a spokesperson with the Galeana Civil Protection told DailyMail.com on Monday.
Two were identified as Joseel Hernández Dera, 27, of El Salvador, and NemÃas Alexander Vamos GarcÃa, 28, of Honduras. A third migrant, whose identity was not revealed, was found injured at the site of the crash.
First responders treat a migrant at the scene of a crash in Nuevo León, Mexico, on Saturday moments after a pickup truck transporting 10 migrants overturned on a highway, killing a six-year-old girl and the driver. A spokesperson with the Galeana Civil Protection told DailyMail.com that the child's pregnant mother was among the nine migrants who suffered injuries
A police officer investigates the scene of an accident on a highway in northeast Mexico where a six-year-old girl from El Salvador was killed Saturday. The truck overturned when the driver tried to avoid a pothole and lost control of the pickup
All three were taken to Saltillo General Hospital in Saltillo, Nuevo León. The official said that Hernández Dera was treated for chest and back pains. Vamos GarcÃa was diagnosed with a fracture in the pelvic area and laceration to the skull.
At least six other migrants abandoned the scene of the crash before authorities arrived and made it to an area clinic on their own.
It is unknown if Hernández Aguilar and Hernández Dera were related.
Three of the nine injured migrants were taken to Saltillo General Hospital in Saltillo, Nuevo León
DailyMail.com reached out to the National Institute of Migration for comment.
The Galeana Civil Protection spokesperson said that the migrants were on their way to driven to Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Once there, the group was expected to cross over the United States-Mexico international border.
The deadly crash comes almost two weeks after a smuggler and 10 migrants were killed and 20 others were injured after a passenger van crashed on a highway in Encino, Texas, on August 4.
The driver had picked up the migrants at a stash house in McAllen, Texas, and was heading to the Dallas, Texas, when he lost control of the large vehicle as he neared a curve and plowed into a utility pole on Highway 281.