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US charges driver in fatal crash near Texas migrant shelter

An SUV is removed May 7 after it ran into pedestrians near the Ozanam Center, a shelter for migrants and homeless people in Brownsville, Texas, the United States [Miguel Roberts/Reuters]

Authorities in the United States have charged a man with eight counts of manslaughter after he rammed his vehicle into a group of people standing outside a migrant shelter in Brownsville, Texas, near the border with Mexico.

During a news conference on Monday, Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda told reporters that the suspect, identified as George Alvarez, attempted to flee the scene after hitting 18 people with a sport utility vehicle (SUV) on Sunday morning.

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