Honduran Foreign Ministry prepares the repatriation of the bodies of the Honduran family that died in Minnesota

December 22, 2021

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The Foreign Ministry of Hondura s reported that it initiated the procedures of repatriation of the bodies of seven people from the Honduran Hernández-Pinto family, who died in Minnesota on Saturday .

However, the Honduran authorities warned that the repatriation procedures must wait for the investigation of what happened in the United States to conclude and for the relatives of the deceased to agree on who will be buried in the United States and who will will be repatriated to Honduras.

The seven dead people from the same family were reported by friends who came to visit them, worried that they would not hear from them and found them dead.

The deceased originating from San Francisco de Yojoa, were identified as Elden Hernández, Belin Hernández, Mariela Orellana, Breylin Hernández, Marleny Pinto, Marbeli Hernández and Mike Hernández. pic.twitter.com/UVsfaY9oeK

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The seven members of the Hernández-Pinto family who were found dead last weekend In the city of Moorhead, in Minnesota, died of carbon monoxide poisoning or, reported this Wednesday local police in a statement.

The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office, where Moorhead is located, released preliminary results of an examination blood tests performed on the victims and these reflect a “lethal level of carbon monoxide toxicity” in Honduran immigrants.

and now their relatives and friends are asking for help to send the bodies to Honduras because they want to see them for the last time and bury them in your birthplace.

The family was originally from Río Lindo, a community located at 54 kilometers south of San Pedro Sula, in the municipality of San Francisco de Yojoa, where they lived part of their lives before migrating to the United States.

The tragedy has moved all the inhabitants of Río Lindo who have gathered to support relatives in Honduras and raise funds for the expenses of repatriation of the bodies and funeral services.

The victims who died were identified as Belin Humberto Hernández and Marleny Jackeline Pinto, who were husbands, had already lived in the United States for eight years; her children Breylin Favela and Mike Bradley were born there and Marbeli Hernández was little when they entered the United States. Elder Noé Hernández Castillo, brother of the first, had been gone for a year, and Mariela Pinto, who was Marleny Pinto’s niece, according to La Tribuna.