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Grief and outrage are building in Mexico following the death of a female Salvadoran refugee killed in police custody.
Victoria Salazar died at the Caribbean beach resort of Tulum in late March after her neck was broken while being subdued by police.
Her death has been likened to that of George Floyd’s – a black American man who died in Minneapolis last year after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The trial for the officer charged with his murder is currently underway.
Ms Salazar was buried in the southwest of El Salvador on the weekend. Protests against her death were also held in Mexico, where there is growing anger about the rates of femicide - the killing of a woman because of her gender.
Victoria Salazar, the Salvadoran woman killed in Mexican police custody in the Caribbean beach resort of Tulum and whose death prompted calls for justice from the presidents of El Salvador and Mexico, was laid to rest in a somber ceremony on Sunday.
By Nelson Renteria
SONSONATE, El Salvador, April 4 (Reuters) - Victoria Salazar, the Salvadoran woman killed in Mexican police custody in the Caribbean beach resort of Tulum and whose death prompted calls for justice from the presidents of El Salvador and Mexico, was laid to rest in a somber ceremony on Sunday.
Some 50 of Salazar s friends and relatives, many wearing floral arrangements, walked through the La Generosa cemetery in colonial Sonsonate, 40 miles (65 km) west of the capital, San Salvador, to her final resting place. We want justice! We hope this is resolved because everyone saw how my sister was murdered. The police did not act right, Carlos Salazar, the victim s brother, told reporters during the funeral.
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