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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

2021-12-23

[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

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