At least 54 US-bound migrants died when the container truck they were in crashed in Mexico - with one official blaming the speed of the vehicle and the weight of its human cargo for the tragedy.
Dozens of bodies arranged in rows covered in white sheets were photographed laid across a roadway in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas On Thursday. At least 54 further people were wounded, 21 seriously, in the horror smash.
The deceased were believed to be Central American migrants, some from Guatemala and Honduras.
As many as 200 migrants were packed in a cargo truck used to transport perishable goods that rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge over a highway, causing dozens of deaths and serious injuries.
The trailer broke open and spilled out migrants when the truck crashed on a sharp curve outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez in the state of Chiapas, according to video footage of the aftermath and civil protection authorities.
It is one of the worst accidents to befall migrants risking their lives to reach the United States since the 2010 massacre of 72 migrants by the Zetas drug cartel in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
'It took a bend, and because of the weight of us people inside, we all went with it,' said a shocked-looking Guatemalan man sitting at the scene in footage broadcast on social media.
'The trailer couldn't handle the weight of people.'
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