Two soldiers fired at the truck, which contained migrants from Egypt, Nepal, Cuba, India, Pakistan, and at least one other country. Upon inspection, soldiers discovered four migrants dead and 12 others wounded. Two of the wounded later succumbed to their injuries. The condition of the remaining 10 was not immediately available.

Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants from a half dozen countries, and six migrants from Egypt, Peru and El Salvador died in an event that President Claudia Sheinbaum called “deplorable.