Truck carrying migrants from India, Pak, other countries shot by Mexican soldiers, six killed
Chiapas: Mexico’s Defence Department reported on Wednesday that a truck carrying migrants from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and other countries was fired upon by Mexican soldiers near the Guatemala border which resulted in the death of six migrants.
The soldiers claimed that they heard gunfire as the truck and two other vehicles approached their position on Tuesday in the southern state of Chiapas. Two soldiers opened fire on the truck and four migrants were found dead on the spot while 12 were wounded.
The Defence Department announced in a press release that “military personnel identified identified 33 migrants of Egyptian, Nepalese, Cuban, Indian, Pakistani, and Arab nationality, of whom 4 had died, 12 injured, and 17 unharmed.” It added that two more people died after being transported to a local hospital.
Additionally, the two soldiers who fired their weapons have been relieved of duty while investigations are currently underway.
The area is reportedly a common route for smuggling migrants, who are often crammed into overcrowded freight trucks.
Irineo Mujica, a migrant rights activist who has frequently accompanied caravans in the Chiapas region, expressed skepticism that the migrants or their smugglers would have opened fire. “It is really impossible that these people would have been shooting at the army,” Mujica was quoted as saying by The Associated Press He added that most of the time they get through by paying bribes.
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902 families wiped out in one year, one survivor in 1,364 Palestinian families: Gazan Media office
Gaza: The Government Media Office in Gaza issued a statement on Wednesday, accusing the Israeli military of committing acts of genocide, with the support of the United States and other Western nations, over the past year in the Gaza Strip. The statement claimed that the Israeli occupation forces had exterminated 902 Palestinian families, erasing them from the civil registry by killing all members of these families during the year-long conflict.
Additionally, the statement highlighted that 1,364 Palestinian families were left with only one surviving member, while 3,472 families had two surviving members. The total number of casualties in Gaza has reportedly exceeded 41,000, with nearly 20,000 people still missing, according to Palestinian officials.
The statement also extended condemnation to the United States and several European countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, accusing them of supplying Israel with banned weapons. It called upon the international community and United Nations organizations to intervene, pressuring Israel to halt its military actions in Gaza and to end the violence that has been ongoing for a full year.
The conflict, which began on October 7 last year following an attack by Hamas, has since expanded into Lebanon. Despite calls for an immediate ceasefire from the UN Security Council, Israel’s military operations in Gaza continue.
The Government Media Office in Gaza emphasized the need for global denouncement of what it described as systematic crimes against civilians, including women and children, urging action to stop the bloodshed.
