11 migrants injured following overnight crash
MEXICALI, B.C. (KYMA, KECY) - A tragic accident involving migrants was reported early Friday morning in Mexicali.
According to the police report, the accident occurred at 2:30am Friday, when the driver of the official car of the National Immigration Institute ran the red light, hitting a bus that was transporting workers from a company in Mexicali.
This caused the 11 migrants suffer serious injuries. The migrants, eight Colombians, two from Guatamela including a 11-year-old boy, and a migrant from Ecuador, were transported to the General Hospital.
A 54-year-old woman from Ecuador, identified as Oyasa Quishpe, died in the hospital.
"The first patient that worried us was the migrant from Ecuador. She came with an abdominal injury. We had to operate on her but unfortunately she died a few hours ago. Two more people, a woman and a man from Colombia, are in intensive care and suffered serious injuries. The rest of the patients migrants are out of danger, they have fractures, among them an 11-year-old boy and his mother from Guatemala, the boy has a fracture in his femur."
Secretary Adrian Medina Amarillas of the Baja California Public Health Department
The workers traveling on the bus didn't suffer injuries.
The driver was identified as a 56-year-old man from Mexicali. He was arrested and booked into a Mexicali city jail.
The investigation remains ongoing.
