By: EFE
A total of 19 Guatemalans who died in December in a tragic accident that left 54 dead in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas were repatriated to their country this Thursday, according to reports official sources.
The forensic authorities of the FGR have achieved to date, with the support of the governments of the countries of origin of the deceased, the identification of 54 of 56 people who died in the accident, most of them Guatemalans.
According to the source, 18 more deceased were transported by air from the Ángel Albino Corzo airport and one more will be sent by land.
Only one migrant remains to be identified.
Marcela Díaz Carachure, regional delegate of the National Funeral Association rarias, indicated that 19 bodies were prepared, including a woman and four young minors of age.
While the Guatemalan consulate, via telephone, confirmed to the media that 18 bodies were transferred to the Ángel Albino Corzo airport, and one more was transported by land to the village of Tzanixnam in the municipality and department of Totonicapán.
The tragic accident occurred on December 9 on the highway from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Chiapa de Corzo, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
More than 131 migrants were traveling hidden in the trailer; the majority came from Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.
Dangerous method
Traveling in crowded trucks is one of the most dangerous forms of clandestinely crossing Mexico used by migrants after paying thousands of dollars to their coyotes or traffickers.
According to an Efe account based on INM communications, least 5,800 migrants were intercepted from June to early December in trailers and buses, the vast majority of them in overcrowded and dehydrated conditions .
This unsafe method of irregularly transporting migrants has not ceased and this week a trailer had an accident in the eastern state of Veracruz when it was transporting 38 undocumented, who were slightly injured.
The region is experiencing a flux or record immigration to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year 2021, which ended on 30 September.
While Mexico has intercepted more than 252, undocumented migrants from January to November and deported more than 100,04 in the same period, according to the Migration Policy Unit of the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
The Commission Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados (Comar) received a record of 131,252 refugee applications in 2021.
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