Dozens of Central American migrants killed in Mexico crash | Al Jazeera

At least 49 people, most of them migrants and refugees from Central America, have died after the truck they were travelling in crashed in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said, in one of the worst road accidents to hit the country in recent years.

The accident occurred on Thursday when a large truck overturned on a dangerous curve outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, said Luis Manuel Garcia, head of the Chiapas civil protection agency.

Reuters news agency images show the white truck flipped onto its side on a highway, with some people laid out on tarps on the ground for medical care.