103 unaccompanied minors found in abandoned trailer in Mexico, govt says

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the holding center of Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM), know as "Las Agujas", at Iztapalapa neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico August 5, 2019. Picture taken August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities found 103 unaccompanied minors mostly from Guatemala inside an abandoned truck trailer in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the government said on Monday, in one of the biggest recent discoveries of migrant children traveling through Mexico.

In addition to the 103 children, authorities found 212 adults from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador in the trailer, the National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement. Another 28 migrants traveling as families from Guatemala and El Salvador were also in the trailer, bringing the total number of passengers to 343.