Saturday, 4 May 2019

Guatemalan boy who died in US custody suffered from brain infection

Juan De León Gutiérrez, 16, travelled to the US from Camotán, hoping to be reunited with his older brother

A Guatemalan boy who died at a Texas children’s hospital after being detained on the US southern border was suffering from a brain infection, the Guardian has learned. He was the third migrant child from Guatemala to die in US government custody in the past five months.

Juan De León Gutiérrez, 16, had travelled to the US from Camotán, a poor rural community in the Chiquimula region of eastern Guatemala, hoping to be reunited with his older brother.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2ITt6jH

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