Guatemalan families begin funerals for migrants killed in Mexico crash

A man stands beside the coffin of Daniel Arnulfo Perez, a Guatemalan migrant who died in a truck crash in southern Mexico, during his wake in El Tejar, Chimaltenango, Guatemala December 19, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra Sebastian

EL TEJAR, Guatemala (Reuters) - Guatemalan families began funeral rites on Sunday for the victims of a deadly Dec. 9 truck accident in southern Mexico that killed at least 50 migrants, most of them from the Central American country.

On Sunday afternoon, about 100 people gathered in the town of El Tejar, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of the capital, Guatemala City, to mourn the death of Daniel Perez, 41.