Mexico City: Mexican authorities have discovered 109 migrants showing signs of dehydration and suffocation crammed inside a truck in Tamaulipas, an official report said. The migrants were trying to reach the US, and according to their statement, "we were taken by human traffickers from the state of Chiapas to Tamaulipas", Efe news reported. The National Migration Institute (INM) reported on Friday that the Central American migrants were found inside the semi-trailer truck near a military post Oyama.

"The INM, in coordination with units of the Mexican army, rescued 109 migrants travelling in an overcrowded truck and trailer without food or water...," the institute said in a statement. Around 5 p.m. on Thursday the truck was intercepted at the inspection point. The migrants showed "signs of dehydration and asphyxiation due to the length of time they had been crowded inside", the report said. The group rescued included 83 Guatemalans (40 men, 11 women, 32 minors), 17 Hondurans (10 men, two women, five minors) and nine Salvadorans (five men, two women, two unaccompanied minors).