37 Bangladeshi migrants rescued in Mexico

Thirty-seven Bangladeshis were among 600 migrants rescued in Mexico after they were crammed into two tractor-trailers, AFP reported quoting Mexico's National Migration Institute.

The institute yesterday said that of the rescued individuals, 145 were women and 455 men.

They were found in the southeastern state of Veracruz, the institute said in a statement.

Reuters reported that 401 of the rescued people were from Guatemala, 53 from Honduras, 40 from the Dominican Republic, 37 from Bangladesh, 27 from Nicaragua, 18 from El Salvador and eight from Cuba.

There were also six men from Ghana, four people from Venezuela, four men from Ecuador, one man from India and one man from Cameroon.

The migrants were traveling "crammed" into the trailers of two trucks, Tonatiuh Hernandez, the local head of the Human Rights Commission, told AFP.

"There are children, minors, I saw pregnant women, sick people," said Hernandez, adding that he had never seen "so many" migrants traveling together in such conditions.

AFP reported that a video obtained by it showed several hundred migrants, looking sullen and tired, crowded in a courtyard of the National Migration Institute as police in riot gear stood guard nearby.

After their names were read out by officials, migrants boarded a bus to be transported for further processing.

Child protections services have also been notified regarding families with children or minors traveling alone, according to Hernandez.

As the corridor between central America and the United States, Mexico has seen vast numbers of migrants flow through its territory, AFP reports.