At least 50 migrants have died in the Panama jungle as they tried to reach the U.S. Recent reports have indicated migrants faced brutal conditions as they made attempts to cross the Darien Gap from Colombia.
While 50 have been reported, officials believed this was a minimal number and only a portion of those who have died. Migrants who have successfully made the crossing were now at the next stop in their journey, but some have remained shaken by what they saw.
“Many things I don’t want to talk about. For example, many, many dead people,” one Haitian migrant expressed.“Many died in the jungle. I saw about six people die in front of me in the river. I saw many people die.”
Nearly 15 migrants have been laid to rest in a cemetery in Panama’s Darien Province after they attempted to cross the gap. Many have even called the gap the “hill of death.”