This Wednesday, staff of the Texas Vista Medical Center informed of the death of two more people who were hospitalized and that they were transferred to their facilities after the discovery of a trailer full of migrants and where the majority died asphyxiated. with this figure there are 53 deceased.
The above was confirmed by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, who explained that in the last hours of today two more people died in hospitals. Of the dead, 40 are men and 13 are women. 28 of them are of Mexican origin.
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Yesterday, Tuesday afternoon, forensic experts had preliminarily identified 34 of the victims, explained the Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Floresand representative of the district where he stayed abandoned trailer. He added that these identities were yet to be confirmed with fingerprints or other means, and there were no deadlines to complete the process.
“It is a very tedious, sad and difficult process,” said the official.
The bodies, discovered on Monday June 27 in the afternoon, were abandoned on the outskirts of the city of San Antonio, in what is believed to be the deadliest known episode of human smuggling on the US-Mexico border. More than a dozen people, including four children, were hospitalized. Three people were arrested.
Huge numbers of migrants are arriving in the United States. Many of them are at serious risk crossing raging rivers and canals and burning deserts. There were almost 240 thousand detentions of migrants in Maya third more than in 2021.
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