Heatwave: 43 bodies of migrants recovered at Arizona’s borderlands amid soaring temperatures across US
At least 16 bodies were recovered a day after their death and 13 had been dead for less than a week
Namita Singh
File: A heat relief station is set up at the Salvation Army Phoenix Citadel on 15 June 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona
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At least 43 migrants have died in Arizona’s borderlands this summer as several US states reel under a scorching heatwave and soaring temperatures.
Humane Borders, a nonprofit that maps the recoveries of bodies in Arizona using data from the Pima county medical examiner’s office in Tucson, said 43 human remains of migrants were found across Arizona’s border with Mexico in June, reported the Associated Press (AP).
Of the 43, at least 16 bodies were recovered a day after their death, while 13 were dead for less than a week, Mike Kreyche, a mapping coordinator for Humane Borders, told AP.
Mr Kreyche said that in the first six months, 127 bodies were recovered from the region, 31 more than the corpses recovered in 2020 for the said period. This year’s death toll also surpasses the earlier figure of 2017 when 123 bodies were recovered along the Arizona-Mexico border.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/america-wildfire-heatwave-arizona-border-b1883024.html