Thugs Attack Central American Migrants, 2 Die When Thrown from 'La Bestia' Train Hispanically Speaking News
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For close to two decades, thousands of Central American migrants have lost their dreams, limbs and lives trying to illegally cross Mexican territory. Mexico represents a great challenge for those whose only goal is to reach the northern border hoping to incorporate themselves into the United States. Their Calvary begins in the state of Chiapas, the moment they step on Mexican soil. (Pedro Ultreras)

Two Central American migrants headed for the United States were killed and a third was injured when criminals threw them off the freight train they were riding in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz, officials said.

The incident occurred earlier this week in San Juan Evangelista, a city in the southern part of Veracruz.

The migrants were attacked after they refused to pay “tolls” to other men riding the train, the Veracruz Attorney General’s Office said.

Criminals threw three of the migrants, whose nationality was not released, from the moving train, killing two of them, the AG’s office said.

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