Thousands of migrants risk their lives on Mexico’s ‘death train’

For more than a decade, migrants going through Mexico on their way to the US have risked their lives hopping onto the roofs of fast-moving freight cars, which are referred to collectively as La Bestia, or “the Beast.” The World’s Tibisay Zea says they are so dangerous that they are known as “death trains.”

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