UNICEF warns of malnutrition and disease risk for migrant children in Mexican camp


  • World
  • Thursday, 09 Dec 2021

A migrant child rests on the shoulder of her father as migrants wait to receive help from the Mexican government to obtain humanitarian visas to transit through Mexican territory, in Tapachula, Mexico December 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of migrant children and adolescents living in a makeshift camp in southern Mexico are at risk of malnutrition, disease and potentially being separated from their families, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.

Camping outside a soccer stadium in the southern city of Tapachula, thousands of migrants including many children are awaiting responses to their requests for asylum or humanitarian visas.

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