The Nicaraguan police have said they found 15 Bangladeshi migrants wandering lost on a highway in that country after their traffickers abandoned them.
Nicaragua 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 migrants were found "disoriented" about 12 miles (20 kms) south of Managua.
Quoting the migrants, a number of news outlets reported that the human traffickers had also robbed them before leaving them abandoned on the highway.
The victims said they had walked for three days from the Costa Rican border.
Media reports stated that the Bangladeshi migrants had paid the smugglers between $100 and $500 for the trip across Nicaragua.
One of the victims was quoted as saying by the local media that he along with other migrants had left Bangladesh because of the ongoing political unrest.
They have been taken to an immigration holding centre, reported PTI.