At least seven people have been arrested in Guatemala in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants in the United States in 2022.
The country’s Ministry of the Interior said on Wednesday that the leader of the gang Los Orozco, which it said is “dedicated to smuggling migrants to the U.S.,’’ and six others were arrested.
In 2022, 53 undocumented individuals from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras died and 11 were injured in San Antonio, Texas, after being smuggled into the U.S. in the trailer of a lorry.
It said that six people had been previously charged in the U.S. in relation to the human smuggling operation.
According to U.S. authorities 66 people, including eight children and one pregnant woman, were loaded into the back of the lorry to be smuggled into the country.
“On June 27, 2022, in a migration tragedy in San Antonio Texas, 53 migrants died inside a lorry.
“This news spread around the world,’’ said Guatemalan Minister of the Interior Francisco Jiménez in a post on X.
“Today we dismantled ‘Los Orozcos’ by capturing their leader alias ‘Rigo’ and six other members presumed to be responsible.’’
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