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A migrant and his son drowned in the Suchiate River while trying to cross into Mexico

2022-05-24T04:36:38.611Z


The man and the seven-year-old minor, originally from El Salvador, were swept away by the strong current on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, in the State of Chiapas


A soldier guards the banks of the Suchiate River, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala.Teresa de Miguel

A Salvadoran migrant and his seven-year-old son have drowned in their attempt to cross into Mexico through the Suchiate River, on the border with Guatemala.

The 36-year-old man and his seven-year-old son were swept away by the strong current early Monday morning, the National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement.

The only survivor of the family has been the mother of the little one who has had to be treated at the Tapachula General Hospital for a nervous breakdown.

“They advanced a few meters next to the mother, when the strong currents of the river separated the minor from the father of him who was carrying him in her arms,” the Mexican authorities have indicated.

The first investigations indicate that when the minor was swept away by the waters, the father tried to rescue him and both succumbed to the rising river.

The bodies have been located at the height of the El Chical community, municipality of Tuxtla Chico, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas.

The consulate of El Salvador has been in charge of managing the repatriation of the corpses so that they can be buried in their place of origin.

The southwestern region of Mexico is experiencing a record migratory flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office has detected more than 1.7 million undocumented people on the border with Mexico in the fiscal year of 2021, which ended on September 30.

In the same way, the Mexican authorities have deported more than 114,000 foreigners last year, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the country's Ministry of the Interior.

While in fiscal year 2022, which started on October 1, 2021, 1,060,094 migrant encounters have already been recorded on the southern US border, according to data from the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP).

It is not the first time that a terrible case like that of this young father and his son has happened.

Two years ago the bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, were found in the Rio Grande.

The image of the two, floating face down in the water, went around the world as a sign of the risk that migrants run on their journey to the United States.

Just two days ago, the Coahuila prosecutor's office located the lifeless body of another man who drowned in the same waters, trying to reach the border.

With this case there are already 91 people who have died on the common border between Coahuila and Texas, according to the local press.

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