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Drop successful amerciable crossings astatine U.S. confederate borderline
Washington — Two work members deployed to the U.S. confederate borderline are dormant and a 3rd is successful superior information aft a conveyance mishap adjacent Santa Teresa, New Mexico, the subject announced precocious Tuesday. The troops were with 1st Marine Division, attached to Joint Task Force - Southern Border.
The Marines were traveling from Santa Teresa, New Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, astatine the clip of the incident, subject officials said.
The portion wherever the mishap took spot is conscionable implicit the authorities enactment and westbound of Fort Bliss, a large Army installation successful West Texas that's played a captious relation successful dispatching subject deportation flights and served arsenic a touchpoint for thousands of soldiers and pieces of instrumentality present deployed on the border.
The troops are determination successful enactment of President Trump's enforcement bid to unafraid the U.S.-Mexico border. Their deaths are the archetypal stemming from that operation, according to The Washington Post, which says the mishap progressive a conveyance rollover.
A defence authoritative speaking connected the information of anonymity to supply further details not yet made nationalist told The Associated Press the mishap occurred successful a civilian vehicle, and said nary civilians were harmed.
The mishap didn't impact immoderate of the scores of Stryker vehicles the Pentagon has sent down to the borderline to execute patrols, the authoritative said.
The mishap occurred astir 8:50 a.m. MDT Tuesday. The names of the deceased won't beryllium released until 24 hours aft their adjacent of kin are notified, the subject said.
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