A Mexican Air Force plane landed Wednesday at an airport near Mexico City, carrying 8 bodies of the 53 migrants found dead in a truck in Texas last month.
They were the first to be returned by the 26 Mexicans among those who died of heat and dehydration inside a closed truck trailer abandoned by smugglers outside San Antonio on June 27. Temperatures that day approached one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). ).
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said late On Wednesday that the military aircraft was heading to San Antonio on Vacation Wednesday to recover 8 more victims. In total, the government plans to return the bodies of 25 of the 26 Mexican victims, in accordance with their families’ wishes, he said.
Among those killed in the van were other people from the states of Guanajuato, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, Zacatecas, Queretaro, Morelos and Mexico City.
Migrants from Honduras and Guatemala were also among those killed in the deadliest smuggling attempt known in the United States.
In 2017, another 10 people died after being trapped in a van parked at a Walmart in San Antonio. In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were discovered in a suffocating van southeast of the city.
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