Government personnel recover the body of a migrant minor at the Rio Bravo, probably a Venezuelan national, days after the U.S. Border Patrol agents alerted the Mexican authorities about a missing girl in the area, in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico January 18, 2022. Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM)/Handout via REUTERS
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The body of a girl thought to be Venezuelan was found in the waters of the Rio Grande river between Mexico and United States, officials said on Tuesday, the latest instance in which a migrant has died while trying to reach the United States.
U.S. authorities had requested help to find a missing girl who was wearing a red jacket, jeans and white socks. Mexican migration officials found the girl's body in a stretch of river in Ciudad Acuna, bordering Texas.
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