Santa Anita Massacre: 2 Guatemalans Among the Victims

Santa Anita massacre: victims of Guatemala identified 1:59

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Two Guatemalans and two Mexicans are among the 19 people whose charred bodies were found last week in a rural area of ​​Santa Anita in the municipality of Camargo, in Tamaulipas, Mexico, according to the first identifications of reported victims.

Through a statement, the Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office reported this Saturday that "four victims have been genetically identified, with the information of the families, two of them of Mexican nationality and two of Guatemalan nationality."

The prosecution did not identify the fatalities by name.

The same statement indicates that it was determined that, of the remains of the 19 deceased, "16 correspond to the male sex, one to the female sex and two pending clarification due to the high degree of calcination."

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The State Prosecutor's Office also reported that, of the two vehicles that appeared on fire along with the bodies on January 22, the pick-up truck where the charred remains were found had 113 gunshot wounds.

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The other car, also a truck, “was located in the place where 66 foreigners were rescued on December 6 by elements of the Municipal Police of the municipality of Escobedo, of that state (Nuevo León), and of the National Institute of Migration".

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The identification of the bodies by the Mexican authorities comes days after inhabitants of the municipality of Comitancillo, in Guatemala, denounced that they had lost contact with at least 13 of its inhabitants who left seeking to emigrate irregularly to the United States and that they feared that they were among the victims who were discovered in Tamaulipas.

Since the discovery of the bodies was announced, authorities in Mexico and Guatemala have said they would work together to identify the victims.

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This Friday, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Eduardo Hernández, told CNN that the Guatemalan government was not sure what happened to the group of migrants from Comitancillo who were heading to the United States through Mexico, or if some of these people would be part of the 19 bodies burned in Tamaulipas.

The diplomat added that the country was gathering the necessary information to be able to find the whereabouts of its nationals.

Until this Saturday, the Tamaulipas Prosecutor's Office had not reported a possible motive behind the event.

It also did not report arrests of alleged perpetrators.

In the statement this Saturday, the institution indicated that "it continues with the investigations and reaffirms its commitment to clarify the facts, find those who are likely responsible, reproaching and reaffirming its actions against human rights violations."

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