MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have found 343 migrants, including 103 unaccompanied minors, in an abandoned freight truck container on the side of a highway, the authorities said Monday.
The National Immigration Institute said the trailer was found Sunday night in the steamy Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
It was on a route often used by smugglers to bring people from southeastern Mexico to the U.S. border.
The migrants were well, and it was unclear why the driver fled, authorities said.
Migrants have been found dead inside abandoned freight containers in the past. But the migrants found Sunday were unharmed, and the conditions in the container illustrate the increasing sophistication of migrant smugglers.
