Forensic experts from seven other Latin American countries are joining the Honduran team identifying the bodies.
Hondurans are burying victims of one of the world's worst jail fires as they search for answers about what caused the disaster.
On Saturday, the death toll rose to 358 after two severely-burned inmates died in a hospital.
Several funerals took place in various towns around the country Friday after authorities released the bodies of the first 24 victims of a horrific inferno that has rattled this Central American nation.
"This was a barbaric crime," said Trinidad Varela, who bid a final farewell to her 28-year-old son, Edwin Ortega, in the town of Talanga, northwest of the capital.
"We cannot leave it just like that."
Four days after the blaze swept through the overcrowded Comayagua jail - which had held double its capacity with 852 inmates - the cause of the fire still was unclear.
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