Guatemalan girl, 5, drowns in Rio Grande after river drags her from mother's arms
Daniel Borunda
El Paso Times
Published 12:35 p.m. MT Aug. 23, 2022
A 5-year-old Guatemalan girl drowned when the waters of the rain-swollen Rio Grande ripped her from her mother's arms while they attempted to cross the El Paso-Juárez border on Monday afternoon, Mexican officials said.
The tragedy unfolded when the turbulent current caused the girl to let go of her mother, who was trying to swim across the river to the United States, Juárez public safety authorities said.
Rescuers on the Mexican side of the river were able to pull the distraught mother to safety, but the child was carried away in opaque, muddy water before being found minutes later downstream east of the giant, red The X monument in Juárez, authorities said.
Video aired by Telemundo Channel 48-KTDO showed a Juárez rescue worker reach down into the muddy water and lift the girl's small body in his arms as he cradles her out of the milk-chocolate-colored water at the river's edge.
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that they would enter a swollen river with “turbulent current”, plus holding a small child. It’s mind boggling.
