Mexico repatriates bodies of 8 from truck tragedy

A Mexican air force plane landed at an airport near Mexico City on Wednesday, bearing eight bodies of the 53 migrants who were found dead in a truck in Texas last month.

They were the first to be returned of the 26 Mexicans among those who died of heat and dehydration inside a locked truck trailer abandoned by smugglers on the outskirts of San Antonio on June 27.Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement Wednesday evening that the military plane was making a second trip to San Antonio on Wednesday to recover eight more victims.

In total, the government planned to return the bodies of 25 of the 26 Mexican victims, in accordance with their families' wishes, the statement said. Those who died in the truck included people from the states of Guanajuato, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, Zacatecas, Queretaro, Morelos, and Mexico City.