A boat carrying Chinese migrants capsized off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, killing eight migrants.
Mexican authorities said over the weekend they were investigating the incident.
The boat capsized on Friday, Oaxacan state officials said in a statement on X on Saturday.
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The only survivor, a man, had said the boat was steered by a Mexican and that they had left the border city of Tapachula in Chiapas state on Thursday, officials said.
Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, is where many migrants depart from hoping to get to the US. The difficulty of obtaining visas for the US and the economic after-shocks of COVID-19 lockdowns have led to a sharp increase in Chinese arriving at the US-Mexico border.
The other migrants on the boat, seven Chinese women and one man, all died, the statement said, adding that they have not been officially identified.
There were no immediate details about what had happened to the Mexican driving the vessel or the condition of the surviving migrant.
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin (汪文斌) yesterday said that Chinese diplomats were working with Mexican authorities to “further verify information on the victims.”
China has “requested that the Mexican side steps up its investigation into the incident,” he said.
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