Guatemala receives migrants who died in Mexico fire

The bodies of 17 Guatemalan migrants who died in a deadly blaze at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, arrived in Guatemala City on Tuesday. The remains were handed to the families, present at the ceremony.Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Búcaro accompanied the bodies in a Mexican Air Force plane and observed a minute of silence on behalf of the victims.

The bodies of 31 of the dead, mostly Central Americans, have already been repatriated to their countries of origin, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.The fire at the detention center on the night of March 27 was started in protest by a small group of detained migrants and sparked the biggest tragedy in recent memory at a Mexican immigration agency facility.