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Mexico investigates after teens from migrant caravan killed near US border
Source: The Guardian
Mexico investigates after teens from migrant caravan killed near US border
• Hondurans killed in Tijuana reportedly stabbed and strangled
• President Amlo says country needs migration policy rooted in ‘defense and protection of human rights’
• Fleeing a hell the US helped create: why Central Americans journey north
Tom Phillips in Mexico City
Wed 19 Dec 2018 17.11 GMT
Two teenage members of the migrant caravan have reportedly been murdered in Tijuana, a stark reminder of the dangers facing the tens of thousands of young Central Americans who try to reach the United States each year.
The Honduran victims, aged 16 and 17, reportedly hailed from the violence-stricken city of San Pedro Sula, where the caravan set out from in mid-October before cutting north-west through Mexico towards the US border.
They had been staying at a shelter for underage migrants in the Mexican border city and were killed after leaving that refuge on Saturday night. Their bodies were found dumped in the early hours of last Sunday, according to the Mexican newspaper La Jornada which said the boys had been strangled.
Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, described the deaths as regrettable. “Investigations are underway,” he told reporters during a press conference at Mexico City’s national palace on Wednesday morning.
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• Hondurans killed in Tijuana reportedly stabbed and strangled
• President Amlo says country needs migration policy rooted in ‘defense and protection of human rights’
• Fleeing a hell the US helped create: why Central Americans journey north
Tom Phillips in Mexico City
Wed 19 Dec 2018 17.11 GMT
Two teenage members of the migrant caravan have reportedly been murdered in Tijuana, a stark reminder of the dangers facing the tens of thousands of young Central Americans who try to reach the United States each year.
The Honduran victims, aged 16 and 17, reportedly hailed from the violence-stricken city of San Pedro Sula, where the caravan set out from in mid-October before cutting north-west through Mexico towards the US border.
They had been staying at a shelter for underage migrants in the Mexican border city and were killed after leaving that refuge on Saturday night. Their bodies were found dumped in the early hours of last Sunday, according to the Mexican newspaper La Jornada which said the boys had been strangled.
Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, described the deaths as regrettable. “Investigations are underway,” he told reporters during a press conference at Mexico City’s national palace on Wednesday morning.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/mexico-honduras-teen-migrants-killed-us-border