15 Bangladeshi migrants found

Police in Nicaragua say they have found 15 Bangladeshi migrants wandering on a highway after their smugglers abandoned them.

Police Commissioner Leonidas Roque said the migrants were being taken from Costa Rica to Honduras. That route takes them across Nicaragua on their way to the United States.

Roque told local media that the “disoriented” migrants were found about 12 miles south of Managua.

The migrants said the smugglers had robbed them. They said they had walked for three days from the Costa Rican border. They had paid the smuggler $100 to $500 for the trip across Nicaragua.