EL CENTRO, Calif. – Nine migrants in an SUV packed with 25 people that drove through an opening in a border wall suffered major injuries after their vehicle slammed into a tractor-trailer and killed 13 others inside, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday.
Seventeen occupants in the 1997 Ford Expedition were Mexican — 10 who died and seven who were injured. The Guatemalan government said Thursday that a 23-year-old Guatemalan woman died.
Two Guatemalans had major injuries. The driver was among the 13 killed in the SUV, from Tuesday’s collision in California’s Imperial Valley, a farming region that produces many of the winter vegetables sold in U.S.