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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0718desert-deaths-ON.html

13 dead in the desert since Friday

Susan Carroll
Republic Tucson Bureau
Jul. 18, 2005 07:33 PM

TUCSON - The bodies of at least six undocumented immigrants were recovered on Monday, capping a deadly weekend of triple-digit temperatures that killed men, women and children trying to cross into the United States illegally through Arizona's deserts.

Since Friday, the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona has counted 13 migrant deaths, including a 13-year-old boy found on the sprawling Tohono O'odham Reservation southwest of Tucson. Since the start of the fiscal year Oct. 1, 175 migrant deaths have been reported in Arizona, compared with 112 during the same time last year, according to the Border Patrol's count. snip

Agents have tried to curb the death toll, logging more than 1,000 rescues since the start of the fiscal year, according to Tucson and Yuma sector statistics. But the deaths this past weekend pushed the Border Patrol above its record-setting total for all of last fiscal year, 172 .

http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=3664121

Man found dead near Sasabe

TUCSON, Ariz. Border Patrol agents discovered the body of a suspected immigrant less than a half mile from the border yesterday. snip

The unidentified man died of some apparent trauma. Barkman says investigators initially thought the man had suffered gunshot wounds, but they were unable to confirm that because of his decomposed state.