Body of 4-year-old found after mom said she was swept away in Rio Grande, agents say
The body of a 4-year-old child was recovered in the Rio Grande by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas after the child was reported missing nearly a week earlier.
After officials assigned to the Eagle Pass station encountered a group of migrants, a Nicaraguan woman told the officers that she’d “dropped her child in the river” and the young child was swept away, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release said.
Agents searched in the air and on land, but could not find the missing child, the release said.
On March 10, a body was found in the Rio Grande, and matched the description of the missing child.
This story was originally published March 10, 2022 at 4:07 PM with the headline "Body of 4-year-old found after mom said she was swept away in Rio Grande, agents say."
