Panama migrant bus crash kills nearly 40

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 17, 2023 1:30 am

PANAMA CITY: At least 39 people, most of them undocumented United States-bound migrants who had just survived a perilous jungle crossing, died in a bus crash in Panama on Wednesday.

Maria Isabel Saravia, Panama's deputy director of migration, said 28 people were also injured in the accident.

FINAL DESTINATION An aerial view of the site where a bus transporting migrants traveling to the United States crashed in Gualaca district, western Panama on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023 (February 16 in Manila). AFP PHOTO

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