The Government of El Salvador repatriated last Sunday the remains of seven of the migrants who died in a detention center in Ciudad Juárez during a fire on March 27.
The bodies were handed over to their relatives in the departments of Sonsonate, Chalatenango, La Libertad and San Salvador.
In a press conference, Cindy Mariella Portal, Vice Minister of Diaspora and Human Mobility, demanded that the Mexican authorities thoroughly investigate the event and punish those responsible.
So far, five people linked to the fire have been detained, including a Venezuelan migrant accused of starting the fire.
Other countries have also begun the process to return the remains of those who died in the fire.
On Friday the first corpse was transferred to Bogotá and 17 Guatemalans and six deceased Hondurans will be transferred starting this Tuesday back to their countries of origin.
There are still hospitalized in various health centers, five of them in serious condition.
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