A four-year-old Venezuelan was killed and three other US-bound migrants were injured on Wednesday when a freight train they were riding atop derailed in northern Mexico, authorities said.
The boy’s seven-year-old brother was hurt while his mother, 28, lost a foot and suffered a spinal injury in the accident, the health secretariat in Chihuahua state said.
A Nicaraguan migrant was also hurt, according to the national immigration institute.
The train overturned in a desert region where migrants often climb on the roofs of passing wagons.
Thousands of migrants fleeing violence and poverty travel across Mexico every year heading for the US border.
