Migrant caravan brings highway in central Mexico to stand still

FILE PHOTO: Migrants from Central America and Mexico walk along a road in a caravan heading to Mexico City, in San Miguel Xoxtla, Puebla state, Mexico December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Imelda Medina/File Photo

SAN MARTIN TEXMELUCAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants walking towards Mexico City on Thursday brought traffic to a halt at an important highway connecting the capital and the central state of Puebla, a Reuters witness and a local authority said.

Migrants, many traveling with children, walked between autos and trucks and some even laid down to rest, a Reuters witness said. They had left the San Martin Texmelucan municipality in Puebla earlier on Thursday.