Armed Group Assaults 300 Migrants On US-Bound Train In Mexico David Iaconangelo - Latin Times
go to original December 5, 2013

Central American women hold a Nicaraguan flag while looking at a picture of a Central American immigrant amputee due to a train accident, at the Pakalna train station in Palenque, Chiapas, December 3. (Reuters)

Some 300 migrants were assaulted and robbed by an armed group as they traveled on the top of a train through the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico on Monday, reported the state's human rights commission.  Animal Politico writes that the Human Rights Commission of the People of Oaxaca (DDHPO) has reported that the incident took place on a rural stretch of the railroad between Arriaga, Chiapas and Ciudad Ixtepec, Oaxaca. The train line is known colloquially as "La Bestia", or "The Beast", because of the danger migrants - many of whom are Central American - face when they hitch a ride on the northbound trains on their way to the United States.

The 10 robbers, according to the DDHPO, descended upon the train's cars while it was stopped, and announced their arrival by shooting guns into the air.  They then forced the migrants to descend from the cars, beating them and threatening them with machetes and guns while they robbed them of their clothes and money.

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