2019.06.27 11:12 GMT+8

Salvadoran migrant father, daughter drowned while crossing river on U.S.-Mexico border

Updated 2019.06.27 11:12 GMT+8
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Twenty-five-year-old Oscar Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Angie Valeria are drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande River from Mexico to the U.S. on Sunday with the child's arm are found still holding on to her father's neck. / VCG Photo

The body of the farther and the daughter are seen at the morgue in Matamoros, Mexico before being transported to the forensic service. /VCG Photo

Barbed razor wire above the Rio Grande, near the location where the bodies of Salvadoran migrants are found. / VCG Photo

Tania, the man's widow who survives and arrived on shore, has watched the pair being swept away by violent currents, drowning before her eyes. /VCG Photo

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