More casualties are identified and there are already 135 dead due to the eruption of the Fuego volcano

"The ten people were on the list of missing persons," said David de León, spokesman for the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conrad).

Half of the new victims identified They were minors, including two girls of six and ten years old.

De Leon said the ten people identified today were residents of the community of San Miguel Los Lotes in the south of Escuintla Department, which was devastated by the powerful eruption

The data of the identified persons were provided by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif).

The Inacif said that the process of identification is carried out by different methods and required to date adds 132 cases. The other three dead were patients who died in hospitals in Mexico and the United States, where they were caught in humanitarian action, but died because of the severity of their burns.

The Inacif also reported having 260 cases "admitted" to the morgue to identify. He explained that the process of identification is carried out by the scientific application of various methods such as dental, anthropological, forensic badysis and individualization.

Most of the victims were found under tons of volcanic material that buried entire homes, especially in the community of San Miguel Los Lotes

The eruption also left 1.7 million people affected and economic and damage losses estimated at $ 219 million. In addition, more than 3,000 people have lost their homes and remained in shelters, while the Guatemalan Government is moving them to temporary family shelters