Mexican families hold funerals for migrants who died in Texas trailer tragedy


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  • Friday, 15 Jul 2022

Relatives of late migrant Efrain Ferrel, 22, attend his wake, after being repatriated from San Antonio, Texas, U.S., at his family's home in Celaya, in Guanajuato state, Mexico July 14, 2022. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

San Marcos Atexquilapan, Mexico (Reuters) - In small towns in eastern and western Mexico, hundreds of mourners gathered in the predawn hours on Thursday to hold the first funerals for migrants who died last month while being smuggled in a suffocating trailer in San Antonio, Texas.

More than 50 people perished in the incident, which was the deadliest human smuggling tragedy in the United States on record.

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