Mexican authorities find three dead migrants and rescue three others in the Rio Grande

authorities of Mexico They found the bodies of three migrants in the waters of the Rio Grande, a natural border with the United States, and rescued a woman and two children in the same place, the Interior Ministry reported this Sunday.

The three bodies were found floating in the river on Saturday by agents of the Beta special group of the National Migration Institute (INM) – dependent on the secretariat – stationed in the border city of Piedras Negras, in the state of Coahuila (north).

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“Two of them did not have identification and one carried documentation from Nicaragua. The Attorney General of the State of Coahuila was informed so that it could take notice of these facts.”, informed the Government in a statement.

Later, the agents helped an adult woman, a two-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, all three of Honduran nationality, who were stranded at the point known as the Railway Bridge, the agency detailed.

“They were trapped by the force and the cold temperature of the currents of the Bravo River”, detailed the statement.

After convincing them to board the airboat, INM agents transferred the rescued migrants to a disembarkation point and later to a shelter.

Thousands of migrants from Central America and other countries cross Mexico daily with the intention of reaching the United States by crossing the vast border between the two countries of more than 3,000 kilometers.

Once at that point, many of them risk crossing the dangerous flow of the Rio Grande, which runs through the eastern region of the binational border, or climbing the border wall that stands mainly in the desert western region.

The tightening of immigration policies in the United States and the reinforcement of security in Mexico push migrants to follow routes or use increasingly risky means of transport.

According to a report presented in mid-December by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 821 people had died in 2021 while transiting through Central or North America.

Source: Elcomercio

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