Through social networks, the Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) confirmed that a military airplane will repatriate the bodies of 8 deceased Mexicans inside a trailer in San Antonio, Texas.
Arturo Rochacoordinator for North America of the Secretariat, explained that the action is carried out by instructions of the chancellor, Marcelo Ebrard.
Until last June 28, the Consulate of Mexico in San Antonio reported that at least 27 migrants of the 51 who died of suffocation inside a trailer in the United States they are mexican.
On the instructions of the chancellor @m_ebrard y @r_velascoa We are about to take off for San Antonio, TX.
We are going by military plane for the first eight bodies of the people who died in the tragedy of June 27. pic.twitter.com/BDgJ9yYTQQ
– Arturo Rocha (@arocha221) July 13, 2022
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At a press conference, the consul Ruben Minutes Zanatta noted on June 29 that there was knowledge of 13 people in different hospitals of the area, of which at least three are from Mexican nationality.
Regarding hospitalized people, he explained that they present different neurological, renal and hepatic failuresas well as internal bleeding.
Tragedy in Texas
On June 27, 53 migrants they suffocated and suffocated from the heat while traveling in the bed of a trailer that was abandoned in San Antonio.