By EFE
Honduran authorities are investigating a third national immigrant who may have died inside a freight car in the border city of Laredo, Texas, reported this Wednesday the director of Consular Affairs of the Tegucigalpa Foreign Ministry, Flabia Zamora.
“On May 12 we received information from the forensic medicine authorities of Laredo through our Classic Consulate in McAllenwhere they reported to us the death of seven migrants inside a train car in Laredo. Among these seven migrants were two Hondurans, who were fully identified through fingerprints by forensic medicine,” Zamora said on social networks.
He added that “currently There is a third party who is presumed to be Honduran. and that is in the investigation process. This is Josué Zerón Valdez, the third victim that we would be confirming is a Honduran,” he stressed.
The official pointed out that The other two victims are the child Nelson David Portillofourteen years old, who was originally from La Masica, department of Atlántida, in the Honduran Caribbean, and Denis Anariba, 25 years old, native of El Negrito, department of Yoro (north).
He also said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains communication with the mother of the minor, who “is in Mexico and has confirmed that “he would be repatriated to Honduras once the Laredo authorities determine that the action to return to the country can now proceed.”
Regarding the body of Denis Anariba, “we have established communication with his wife, who has informed us that he will not be repatriated to Honduras,” Zamora emphasized.
“The preliminary forensic medicine report determines that The cause of death was due to heat stroke. for being under extreme temperatures inside the car,” he added.
US forensic authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the six people found dead inside a train car cargo workers in the border city of Laredo were of Mexican and Honduran nationality.
The remains of a seventh person, who could be the third Honduran, were later found at another nearby site.
According to Webb County Medical Examiner Corinne Stern, it is “very likely” that excess heat was the cause of death of “the entire group.”
The deceased were identified as two Hondurans, a 24-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, and four Mexicans, including a 29-year-old woman, a 45-year-old man and a 56-year-old man, Corinne Stern said in a statement.
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