The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have confirmed that the body found in Osoyoos Lake two days ago corresponds to young Mexican Carlos Tomás Aranda Burgoin, 30, missing since July 7 in the province of British Columbia, reported relatives this Thursday.
Aranda Burgoin, of Oaxacan origin, lived in the city of Oaxaca, capital of the state of the same name in southern Mexico, and had traveled to Canada to learn about sustainable tourism projects to enrich his studies and apply them to Oaxaca, his brother said. EFE. Josué Aranda Burgoin in Oaxaca, before learning that the body had been located.
“He left with the intention of knowing, he traveled from Mexico to Canada with his friend Ángel, who is the one who filed the complaint, he studied tourism and sustainable development at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca and worked in the city on questions at events in hotels as a waiter,” the brother explains.
To pay for his trip, Carlos Tomás Aranda Burgoin saved for a year, explained Josué Aranda; “He wanted to travel to learn more, he got his passport and tourist visa and sold assets like a motorcycle to be able to pay for the trip and the flight,” he explained.
Given the disappearance of his son, since the end of July, the father of Carlos Tomás requested an emergency passport from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) of Mexico to travel to Canada where he began his search by himself- even.
To do this, family and friends organized raffles and collections to raise financial resources so that his father could travel.
This Thursday, through a press release, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police expressed its condolences to the family and friends of Carlos Tomás.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the RCMP had located the suspected body of the Mexican, last seen on July 7.
In addition, he said that the forensic doctor would carry out the corresponding tests using DNA samples “to corroborate if it is indeed Carlos Tomás.”
In the statement, the Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, indicated that “it will accompany the Aranda Burgoin family to provide them with all the necessary consular assistance, as well as support with the Canadian authorities.”
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On August 7, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Alicia Bárcena, spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Mélanie Joly, to ask them to support the search for Aranda Burgoin.
Regarding the case, Interpol had issued a yellow card to locate Aranda Burgoin.
Relatives of Carlos Tomás had denounced to the media the lack of support from Mexico and Canada and said that the young man’s father had visited the area where he disappeared and requested reports from Canadian police, without success.
With information from the EFE
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