In the state of Coahuilapersonal of Beta Black Stones Group and of City Acunaboth of Migration’s national institute (INM), rescued between last Tuesday and Saturday, 14 migrants from Nicaragua and Honduras that they were trapped in Bravo Riverand four more from Mexico who wandered in the Federal Highway 2 Nuevo Laredo-Piedras Negras.
Also, in this period the bodies of two adult men were recovered floating in the bed of the River; one of them, on Tuesday, between international bridges 1 and 2, and another on Saturday in the sector known as Santa Martha. None of them had documents. ID.
The expert services of the Attorney General of the State of Coahuila They took charge of the field survey and subsequent removal of the bodies recovered in the Rio Grande, to transfer them to the Forensic Medical Service and carry out the corresponding investigations.
On the other hand, in the first minutes of Tuesday, the state Command, Control, Communications and Computing Center (C4) reported four migrants in the middle of the Bravo Riverin the area known as ‘El Centinela’, despite the fact that following their search they were not found.
However, as part of the same route, six foreigners were found stranded in the middle of the river: a minor, a woman and four adult men, all from Honduras, who were taken to solid ground to be helped when they registered symptoms of hypothermia. .
That same day, at 2:00 p.m., seven more migrants from Nicaragua were located: one minor, two women and four adult men inside the river, hugging a pillar of International Bridge 1.
Additionally, at 4:42 p.m. on Wednesday, a man from Honduras was rescued on rocks anchored between international bridges 1 and 2. He was transported by airboat to provide him with a thermal sheet and take him to Mexican soil.
On Saturday, minutes before noon, following a report from C4, a 17-year-old boy, born in Celaya, Guanajuato, was found missing at kilometer 59 of Federal Highway 2 Nuevo Laredo-Piedras Negras. On the way back, he helped three more Mexican people who were wandering on the shoulder following being abandoned by ‘polleros’.
Grupo Beta elements in Coahuila took the minor to the city of Piedras Negras, where his father was already waiting for him. Meanwhile, the other three nationals decided to stay at the local trucking center in order to return to their place of origin in Veracruz, Puebla and San Luis Potosí.
The INM of the Ministry of the Interior endorses the commitment to respect the rights and safeguarding of people in the context of migration through national territory and, especially, in areas of greatest risk to their integrity, such as the Rio Grande.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital
