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Guatemalan migrants killed in Mexico laid to rest © Reuters Seven weeks after 16 migrants were killed in Mexico, their bodies were returned to Guatemala
Around 1,500 people gathered in the Guatemalan town of Comitancillo on the weekend to remember 16 migrants who were brutally killed in January.
Their bodies were flown from Mexico to Guatemala on Friday, seven weeks after they were found in a lorry near the US-Mexico border. © Reuters Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei was at the airport to receive the bodies
Investigators think they were killed as part of a turf war between gangs over control of migrant smuggling routes.
Grief as Guatemalan migrants killed in Mexico laid to rest
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Mexico sends bodies of 16 migrants found massacred along smuggling route back to Guatemala, which declares 3 days of mourning
The Mexican government on Friday repatriated the bodies of 16 Guatemalans who were massacred January 22 in Camargo, Tamaulipas
The victims were part of a group of migrants who were bound for the United States and were found shot and severely burned in a pickup truck
Three other Mexican nationals were also murdered in the attack
The remains of the migrants arrived at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City
12 state police officers have been arrested in connection with the killings