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Two Honduran migrants were shot dead and three others injured when attacked by two people attempting to rob them in Huimanguillo Municipality, Mexican state Tabasco, southeast of the country, local authorities reported Tuesday.
According to information from the municipality’s municipal police, the attack took place at 8:20 AM (1:20 PM GMT), when the five Honduran migrants walked on the train tracks and were surprised by two alleged criminals aboard a motorbike.
The Central Americans tried to escape the attack but became part of the community during the attack Chontalpa station, about 87 kilometers from Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco.
“Two men on a motorcycle fired at them and wanted to attack them. They – the Central Americans – ran and stayed on the train tracks. Two died there and three were injured by gunfire,” said Luis Mateo Díaz, municipal police inspector in Huimanguillo. . .
The officer assured that the five Central Americans were bound for Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, to take the train to continue their journey to the United States.
It indicated that the three survivors had been transferred to the municipal regional hospital for medical care Huimanguillo, where they were treated for gunshot wounds.
The migrants injured with a firearm are: Eliezer Joaquin Sosa Madariaga, 27, who had a bullet strike in his right arm; Yondi Renan Rojas, 32, with a gunshot wound to the right leg and Gerson Obany Reyes Sánchez, 23, injured in the left rib.
While the two deceased have not yet been identified.
The community of Chontalpa station, is considered by the authorities of Tabasco as a high risk area for Central American migrants who are constantly attacked while passing the entity, also in the region operates the criminal organization Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación and a band dedicated to the smuggling of huachicol.
After the events, the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Tabasco (FGE), opened a research folder.