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Border patrol agents patrolling the Yuma Sector in Arizona found two dead migrants in separate locations, Customs and Border Patrol announced Thursday.
Yuma Sector: Two migrants found dead in two days
U.S. Border Patrol
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents found two dead migrants in separate locations in Yuma earlier this week.
U.S. Border Patrol said the first incident happened Monday morning when Wellton station agents tracked a group of migrants through the Barry M. Goldwater bombing range. However, they found a dead man later identified as a 40-year-old Mexican national who was miles away from a rescue beacon.
Agents believe the man had been dead for about two weeks.
On Tuesday afternoon, Yuma Sector radio fielded a 911 call from Mexico about a group in need of help south of the Foothills. A caller stated a woman of the group had collapsed and died.
Two Migrants Found Dead in Arizona Desert near Border
File Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Yuma Sector
3 Jun 2021
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of two migrants who succumbed to the heat of the Arizona desert after being smuggled across the border from Mexico. One of the migrants died this week, while the second had been dead for two weeks.
Yuma Sector agents assigned to the Foreign Operations Branch on June 1 received a call from Mexican officials about a 911 call reporting a distressed group of migrants who became distressed from the heat after illegally crossing the border into southwest Arizona, according to information provided by Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials. Mexican officials advised that one of the females in the group collapsed and died from the heat.