Mexico City: More than 120 crocodiles died from supposedly suffocating and crushing each other while being transported across Mexico in a truck, authorities said yesterday.

The wildlife company Cocodrilos Exoticos, based in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo, could face a fine of between 50 to 50,000 days of minimum wage - $193 to $1,93,000, the environmental prosecutor's office said.