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Victims of 'the train of death'

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-06-25 17:41
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Victims of 'the train of death'

Train accident victims Carlos Galindo (L), 44, and Benito Murillo, 39, pose for photographers in El Progreso while Murillo's son holds the crutches for his father June 24, 2010. Both migrant workers, they were ran over by a train on their way to work in the U.S. in 2005. According to a local migrants organization, thousands of Central Americans - predominantly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala - cross Mexico's southern border to the U.S. every year on a train popularly known as "the train of death", during which many die or get seriously injured falling off from crowded trains. Picture taken June 24, 2010.[Agencies]