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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Herika MARTINEZ

Extreme Heat Is New Danger Stalking US-bound Migrants

The personal belongings of migrants abandoned on the banks of the Rio Bravo, a natural border with the United States (Credit: AFP)

In the Mexican desert near the US border, security forces are on alert after a man was found dead from heat stroke on the journey to what he hoped would be a better life in North America.

The 45-year-old Mexican man's body was found buried among sand and bushes under the merciless sun, a week after a woman died from dehydration in the northern state of Chihuaha, where temperatures are over 40 degrees Celsius.

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