US Border Patrol finds four bodies, death toll in New Mexico desert rises
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Briana Sanchez, El Paso Times
US border control officials found four bodies in the desert around Sunland Park in the US state of New Mexico on Monday. In just over a month, around 20 people have lost their lives in this area.
While the border region continues to experience 38-degree heat every day, deaths are being discovered in the desert every few days in the migrant smuggling border zone in New Mexico, just west of El Paso.
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The Sunland Park Fire Department said in a post on Platform X that the bodies found Monday afternoon were found in the desert between the 5600 block of McNutt Road and Bi-National Avenue near the Santa Teresa border crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The deaths are currently being investigated by the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office, Sunland Park Police Department and the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator.
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The identities of the dead have not been disclosed, but they are believed to be undocumented migrants. It is known that these people died of heat stroke after becoming disoriented and lost in the desert after crossing the border wall.
Since late May, there have been about 20 deaths in the Sunland Park area, according to a rough estimate of reported cases, including three people who died on June 25 in the Rio Grande on the Texas-New Mexico border.
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