Migrants. File photoWASHINGTON, Sep 4At least nine illegal migrants drowned in a river while trying to cross the Mexico-U.S. border, ABC News reported on Saturday. U.S. border guards found six bodies, three more were found by their Mexican colleagues. The channel quotes the US Border and Customs Service, whose employees rescued 37 migrants and «detained 16 more.» The authorities do not say which countries the dead were from. The Rio Grande originates in the US state of Colorado, flows south through the state of New Mexico and flows into the Gulf of Mexico, forming a natural border between the US, in the state of Texas, and Mexico.
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