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Texas migrant deaths: Families anxious amid efforts to ID victims

The number of dead has risen to 53, the local medical examiner’s office said on Wednesday, after migrants were abandoned in a truck in the sweltering heat near San Antonio, Texas in the United States earlier this week [Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters]

The bodies of more than a dozen Hondurans have been identified among the 53 people who died after being trapped inside a truck in southern Texas, a senior Mexican official said, as families desperately seek news of their loved ones amid ongoing efforts to identify the victims.

Francisco Garduno, head of the Mexican government’s National Migration Institute (INM), said on Wednesday that 14 Hondurans, seven Guatemalans and two Salvadorans died alongside the 27 Mexican fatalities reported a day earlier.

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