Authorities are investigating the reason for loss of life this week of a Mexican lady whose leg was entrapped whereas utilizing a climbing harness and ended up hanging the other way up off the border wall in japanese Arizona.
U.S. Customs and Border Safety officers provided few particulars, however the native sheriff's workplace stated the lady was a 32-year-old who was trying to cross the wall Monday night time close to Douglas, Arizona. Her identify was not launched.
The Cochise County Sheriff's workplace stated she hung the other way up for "a major period of time."
The sheriff's workplace stated it was in touch with the native Mexican consulate and continues to analyze what occurred.
Customs and Border Safety stated its Workplace of Skilled Duty is working with the sheriff's workplace on the investigation and would launch extra data because it turns into obtainable.
Migrants often die whereas trying to cross the border wall, together with a person who died earlier this month from accidents he suffered when he fell from the barrier in Texas.
It was unknown if there was video surveillance within the space the place the lady turned entangled. Authorities didn't describe the wall she was attempting to climb over.
Nevertheless, among the final border wall development carried out earlier than the top of former President Donald Trump's time period was within the Douglas space, with 30-foot-tall metal columns erected on U.S. Bureau of Land Administration property.
On April 1, two migrants fell from the border barrier close to Clint, Texas, about 12 miles west of the Tornillo port of entry. Emergency medical technicians rendered first support and took them to a hospital in El Paso. One man arrived on the hospital unconscious and died on the hospital on April 5. The second was handled for a fractured proper hand and returned to Customs and Border Safety officers, who returned him to Mexico.