Police in Guatemala have rescued 126 migrants who were abandoned inside a shipping container at the side of a road.
They were found at dawn between the towns of Nueva Concepción and Cocales after locals reported hearing screams inside the trailer.
Authorities believe they were abandoned by smugglers who had been paid to take them to the US via Mexico.
More than 100 of those discovered are from the crisis-hit nation of Haiti.
There were also people from Nepal and Ghana.
Speaking after the discovery, a police spokesperson said: "We heard cries and knocks coming from inside the container. We opened the doors and found inside 126 undocumented people."
Officers gave the migrants first aid before escorting them to a shelter run by the Guatemalan Migration Institute.
A spokeswoman for Guatemala's migration authority, Alejandra Mena, said that the migrants had arrived in Central America in Honduras and from there begun to make the treacherous journey north to the US.
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