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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.
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image captionGuatemalan 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.
Twelve Mexican police officers have been arrested over the killings.
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image captionAt least 11 of the 16 Guatemalan migrants were from the town of Comitancillo
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