Bodies of drowning victims reach El Salvador
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Mart??nez Ram??rez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez' wife, Tania told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current. (AP Photo/Julia Le Duc)
The corpses of Óscar Alberto Martínez and his daughter Angie Valeria, who drowned in the Rio Grande, on the border between Mexico and the United States, arrived in Salvadore on Sunday, June 30.
The remains of Óscar, 25 years old, and the girl of almost two years entered via land to the town of La Hachadura, on the borderline between El Salvador and Guatemala, about 110 km southwest of San Salvador, in the department of Ahuachapán, reports the AFP news agency.
The Salvadoran minister of government, Mario Durán, received the bodies that arrived in a hearse.
Both the father and his daughter will be transferred from La Hachadura to the La Bermeja cemetery, in the southern sector of San Salvador, where after a day of vigil they will be buried.
Martinez and the girl died drowned a week ago in the Rio Grande when they tried to cross illegally to reach US soil.
The photograph of this father with his daughter when they lay dead face down on the riverbank shocked the international community.
The decision to move the bodies by land from Mexico was taken in conjunction with the family of the victims.
