A Mexican Air Force plane landed at a nearby airport Mexico City on Wednesday, 53. with eight bodies of migrants who were found dead in a truck Texas last month.
They were the first to bring back 26 Mexicans who died of heat and dehydration inside a closed truck trailer abandoned by smugglers on the outskirts of Mexico. St. Anthony on 27th June. Temperatures reached near 100 °F (38 °C) that day.
Mexico’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement Wednesday evening that the military plane was making a second trip to San Antonio on Wednesday to recover eight more victims. Overall, the government plans to return the bodies of 25 of the 26 Mexican victims to their families, the statement said.
Those killed in the truck were in the states of Guanajuato, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, Zacatecas, Queretaro, Morelos and Mexico City.
Expatriates from Honduras and Guatemala were also among those killed in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States.
In 2017, 10 people died after being trapped inside a parked truck at a San Antonio Walmart. In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a truck in the southeast of the city.
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