At least six people were killed when a cargo train nicknamed "La Bestia," or "The Beast," on which would-be migrants hitch lifts toward the US border, derailed in a remote area of southern Mexico.
Ambulances were unable to reach the accident scene in Huimanguillo in the southern state of Tabasco because of the difficult terrain.
Images from the scene showed freight cars upturned and wheels separated from their base.
Officials said eight of the 12 cars overturned and that a Honduran man was among the dead.
"This train carries a lot of (illegal) migrants from Central America," Cesar Burelo, emergency services director in Tabasco, told local television. "(Those five) were the visible dead.
It could be that as the structure of the train is removed ... more bodies could appear."
Engineers are planning to move the overturned wagons today.
Mr Burelo said it would be difficult to determine the total number of people aboard the train at the time of the pre-dawn accident.
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