Children go missing as Central American migrants clash with Mexican forces

Women and children travelling to the U.S. stand in a line to get breakfast in an improvised shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

SUCHIATE RIVER, Guatemala/Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican security forces fired tear gas at rock-hurling Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico earlier on Monday, in a chaotic scramble that saw mothers separated from their young children.

The clashes between hundreds of U.S.-bound Central Americans and the Mexican National Guard underscores the challenge President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador faces to contain migration at the bidding of his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.