Tegucigalpa, Apr 10 (EFE).- Honduras will receive this Tuesday the six bodies of the Hondurans who died in the fire that broke out in a migrant station of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico, on the border Ciudad Juárez on March 27 , the vice chancellor, Antonio García, reported on Monday.
The mortal remains of the migrants will arrive on a Mexican Air Force charter flight at Palmerola International Airport (XPL), which serves Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, where they will later be delivered to their families, García said.
He added that the bodies of several Guatemalans who also died in the fire at the immigration station in Ciudad Juárez will be repatriated on the same flight.
Eight other Hondurans survived the fire and seven of them are still hospitalized, four of whom are still intubated, Garcia said.
On the night of March 27, a fire at the center of the National Migration Institute, on the Mexico-United States border, killed 40 migrants, including 6 Hondurans, 7 Salvadorans, 18 Guatemalans, 7 Venezuelans, and one Colombian.
In addition to the deaths, the accident left 27 injured, of which 23 remain hospitalized and so far only 4 have been discharged. At the immigration station there were about 70 migrants that Mexico was going to deport.
According to the Mexican authorities, the fire inside an immigration station in Ciudad Juárez originated because some migrants set fire to some mats as a protest measure.
At the end of March, the Mexican government reported that after the initial investigations by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), eight alleged perpetrators of the fire at the immigration station were identified.
According to Mexican civil organizations, 2022 was the most tragic year for migrants in Mexico, as some 900 died trying to cross without documents from the country to the United States.
The region is experiencing a record migratory flow, with 2.76 million undocumented immigrants detained at the United States border with Mexico in fiscal year 2022.
