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The Arizona border facility on the US-Mexico border (2010)
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US authorities are investigating the cause of death of a 32-year-old Mexican woman whose leg was crushed while trying to cross the border wall near Douglas in eastern Arizona with a climbing harness.
This was announced by the Cochise County Sheriff's Office.
The woman's name was not released.
She hung upside down on the border wall for "a considerable amount of time."
They are in contact with the local Mexican consulate and are still investigating what happened.
Again and again, migrants die trying to cross the wall in the US-Mexico border area.
They include a man who died earlier this month from injuries sustained when he fell from a border facility in Texas.
It was not known if there was video surveillance in the area where the woman was trapped.
Authorities did not provide any information about the nature of the wall over which she tried to climb.
However, some of the last border wall structures built before the end of former President Donald Trump's term in office were in the Douglas area.
These are nine meter high steel columns.
On April 1, two migrants fell from the border facility near Clint, Texas, about 12 miles west of the Tornillo border crossing.
Paramedics administered first aid and took her to a hospital in El Paso, Texas.
A man was taken unconscious and died in hospital days later.
The second man was treated for a broken right hand and handed over to Customs and Border Protection officials, who took him back to Mexico.
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