A total of eight migrants died in a head-on collision Monday after the group fled authorities in Texas.

The migrants were packed inside a red Dodge pickup truck when they slammed into a white Ford F-150 while agents were in pursuit, the Texas Department of Public Safety told the Washington Examiner in an email. The violent crash took place 30 miles north of the city of Del Rio, which sits roughly 4 miles from the Mexican city of Ciudad Acuna. All eight of the migrants were pronounced dead on the scene.

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