MEXICOCITY -The our bodies of greater than a dozen Hondurans have been recognized among the many 51 individuals who died after being trapped inside a trailer truck discovered this week on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas, a senior Mexican official stated on Wednesday.
Francisco Garduno, head of the Mexican authorities’s Nationwide Migration Institute (INM), informed a information convention that 14 Hondurans, seven Guatemalans and two Salvadorans died alongside the 27 Mexican fatalities reported on Tuesday.
Two Mexican nationals have been charged in U.S. federal courtroom over the deadliest human smuggling tragedy in current U.S. historical past. The deaths have sparked widespread consternation.
One of many our bodies present in Texas had not but been recognized, and 16 migrants have been nonetheless in six native hospitals, Garduno stated. Three of the injured are Mexicans, and the nationalities of 13 others stay unclear, he added.
Garduno stated there have been 67 migrants on board the truck, a quantity decrease than some officers had beforehand hinted at.
Many households in Mexico and Central America are anxiously awaiting information of loved-ones following the truck’s discovery on Monday in an industrial space on the sting of San Antonio about 160 miles (250 km) north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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