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Families farewell Guatemalan migrants slain in Mexico 2 minutes read
By Esteban Biba
Comitancillo, Guatemala, Mar 13 (efe-epa).- Seven weeks ago the relatives of 16 Guatemalan migrants from Comitancillo received calls and messages alerting them to a car accident near the Mexico-United States border.
The “accident” was actually a massacre in the town of Santa Anita, where 19 people were shot and incinerated. Sixteen of the dead were Guatemalan.
On Saturday, Guatemalan families held wakes and paid tribute to the victims, suspected to have been killed by a cartel.
The 16 bodies arrived in Guatemala on a flight Friday organized by Mexican immigration authorities. At the headquarters of the Guatemalan Air Force, they were received by a contingent of politicians and officials, including President Alejandro Giammattei, before being transferred to their hometowns.