SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A man and his young daughter who drowned trying to cross into Texas were laid to their final rest Monday, a week after a heartbreaking image of their bodies floating in the Rio Grande circled the globe. About 200 relatives and friends followed a hearse bearing the bodies of Óscar Martínez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria inside La Bermeja municipal cemetery in southern San Salvador. “We are with them in their pain.” Tania Vanessa Ávalos, their wife and mother, returned to El Salvador on Friday ahead of their remains. They underscored the perils faced by migrants and asylum-seekers trying to reach the United States. They fled El Salvador.

Source: thestar July 01, 2019 16:24 UTC