Pregnant teenager falls to her death trying to climb over US border wall

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A pregnant 19-year-old fell to her death while trying to scale a border fence in Texas over the weekend, authorities said on Thursday. The woman, Miriam Estefany Giron Luna, of Guatemala, fell backward from the top of an 18-foot-high span of steel mesh fencing while trying to cross with the child's father, according to a statement from Guatemala's Foreign Ministry. Ms Giron Luna, who was 30 weeks pregnant, died from her injuries on Tuesday, and doctors were not able to save the child, the statement said. Tekandi Paniagua, a Guatemalan consular official based in Texas, said the fact that the couple was attempting to sneak into the United States by climbing the fence was an...

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