The Mexican prosecutor general's office (PGR) said on Saturday that it was investigating the possible disappearance of 19 migrants from Honduras as they travelled through Mexico.

Leonor Figueroa, the head of the investigation unit for migrants, said in a statement that their disappearance was reported by their relatives who had been interviewed at the Mexican Embassy in Honduras.

According to Figueroa, the investigation will see the PGR send agents to the Central American country as part of the office's program for missing people.

"We decided with the International Committee of the Red Cross, with families and with Honduras authorities that it was worth looking into these reports," she said.

The PGR said that 19 migrants had disappeared at various dates and in different places across Mexico as they were en route to the United States, with the cases being gathered by activists in Honduras.

The PGR's unit is already looking into the cases of 30 other migrants who have disappeared in the past.

Around 400,000 Central American migrants cross Mexico every year to get to the United States, most of them coming from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, according to figures from the Mexican government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Endit

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