Migrants shot dead by Mexican army near Guatemala border [Video]

MEXICO CITY –

Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants from a half dozen countries, and six migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras died in an event that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum described Thursday as “deplorable.”

Three of the dead were from Egypt, and one each from Peru and Honduras. The other has apparently not yet been identified. Authorities have not yet released their ages, but at least one may have been a minor.

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Ten other migrants were wounded in the shooting. but there was no immediate information on their conditions.

Peru’s Foreign Ministry confirmed one Peruvian was killed and demanded “an urgent investigation” into the killings. Peru and Mexico have had damaged relations since a 2022 diplomatic spat.

Sheinbaum said the two soldiers who opened fire on Tuesday, her first day in office, …