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Family and friends arrived for the funeral of the father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande after their bodies were returned to El Salvador on Sunday (Picture: Reuters) The young father and daughter who drowned in each other’s arms trying to cross into the US last week have returned home for a private burial ceremony. Emotional family and friends of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, 25, and his toddler daughter Valeria were pictured arriving at their wake at La Bermeja cemetery in San Salvador on Sunday night. Both father and daughter died attempting to swim across the Rio Grande to the United States. Their bodies returned home to El Salvador in Central America yesterday from neighbouring Guatemala. Heartbroken relatives will hold a private ceremony in the capital on Monday. A devastating picture released last week showed 23-month old Valeria lying face down in the water with her little arm wrapped around the neck of her father. The image broke hearts around the world as it shone a light on the dangers migrants face in desperately trying to give their families better lives in the US. Jackie Tamayo cried as she mourned the lives of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23 month-old daughter Valeria (Picture: Reuters) Pastor Yadi Martinez lit a candle during a vigil in Brownsville, Texas, US, close to where the bodies were discovered (Picture: Reuters) A photo of Oscar and Valeria was placed on an altar during the candlelit vigil in Texas as their bodies were taken back to El Salvador (Picture: Reuters) Mourners in the US held posters in support of migrants and against Donald Trump’s border wall (Picture: Reuters) The young father and daughter who drowned in each other’s arms will be buried in a private ceremony in El Salvador on Monday (Picture: AP) The image shocked people across the world as it shone a light on the dangers facing migrants crossing into the US (Picture: AP) The father and daughter were swept away by the current in the river between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas. Ramirez and his wife, Tania Vanessa Avalos, 21, had been living with his mother and apparently felt that their salaries working at a pizza parlor and as a restaurant cashier would never be enough to purchase a modest home in their suburb of San Salvador. According to Martinez’s mother, Rosa Ramirez, the dream to save money for a home led the family to set out for the United States. Ramirez had become frustrated at being unable to present himself to US authorities to request asylum. On Sunday last week he decided to try and swim across the river with his daughter, tucking her into his t-shirt, with her arms draped around his neck. He made it across and left Valeria on the bank of the river before heading back to get his wife Tania. But as he swam away Valeria became frightened and threw herself into the water. He went back and managed to grab her, but they were swept away by the current. The neighborhood they left behind in El Salvador is a humble bedroom community where most people live in low-rise, two-bedroom homes with a combination kitchen-living room-dining room, worth about around £7,800 to £11,800 each. Residents say violence and extortion has eased in the neighborhood, but that poverty and ambition still drive many to migrate. The devastating picture showing Oscar and Valeria’s drowned bodies in the Rio Grande near to the US border (Picture: AFP/Getty) Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, 25, left El Salvador with his wife Tania, 21, and their daughter Valeria, one, on April 3 Rosa Ramirez sobs as she shows journalists toys that belonged to her 23-month-old granddaughter Valeria in her home in El Salvador (Picture: AP) The migrants were attempting to swim across the Rio Grande when they were swept away by a current (Picture: AP) Mourners held signs protesting immigrants’ rights as they honoured the father and daughter’s lives (Picture: AP) In the Mexican border city of Tijuana, people included a picture of the drowned father and daughter in a memorial erected in the memory of migrants who have died trekking north toward the US. The pictures, candles and crosses of the memorial were placed next to the US-erected fence along the border. While in Brownsville, close to where the pair were found, mourners held a candlelit vigil, holding pictures of Ramirez and his daughter as well as posters calling for migrant rights. Official records show a total of 283 migrants died along the 2,000-mile long US and Mexico border last year. The official death toll so far this year has yet to be released. Migrant families have been coming over the border in unprecedented numbers in recent months, reaching a peak in May, when 84,000 adults and children traveling together were apprehended. Nearly 500,000 immigrants have been detained at the border since the start of 2019, resulting in dangerous overcrowding in US holding centers. Got a story for Metro.co.uk? If you have a story for our news team, email us at webnews@metro.co.uk. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
