MEXICO CITY, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Two people have died and one remains missing after a small boat filled with migrants from Cameroon sank off Mexico's southern Pacific coast on Friday, authorities said.

Seven men and one woman were rescued and sent to a local hospital, while one person was still missing, said the prosecutors' office in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas.

All were from Cameroon, a country plagued by violent conflicts since separatists declared "independence" of the two English-speaking regions from the largely French-speaking population in 2017.

Over 530,000 Cameroonian people have been displaced by the conflict, according to the United Nations.