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Five members of human smuggling network that charged $20,000 per person are arrested in the Dominican Republic after being linked to deaths of three of the 56 migrants killed in Mexico truck crash
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Authorities in the Dominican Republic arrested five men tied to a smuggling ring

  • The arrests took place Tuesday in the cities of Baní and Santo Domingo

  • The network reportedly helped smuggled three of the 56 Central American and Dominican migrants who were killed in a crash in Mexico on December 9

  • The group charged migrants up to $22,000 to smuggle them from the Dominican Republic to the United States

  • A total of six Dominican nationals have been confirmed dead by Mexican and Dominican authorities

  • At least three were injured, but 11 who were in the tractor trailer at the time of the accident have been reported missing

  • The truck was hauling over 160 migrants when it crashed into the side of a pedestrian bridge in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas

  • At least 107 people were also injured in the accident

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-12-23
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=620685