Migrants have been injured after falling from a wall at the US-Mexico border.
At least 10 migrants were injured after falling from a border wall in California on Saturday.The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department declared a 'mass casualty' incident after Border Patrol agents sought help for those injured near Border Field State Park, local media reported.U.S. Customs and Border Protection 'notified us that eight patients had fallen from the border fence,' a spokesperson for SD Fire-Rescue told Newsweek.'Our crews responded and triaged eleven patients.
Rios believes that rainy weather made the wall slippery, leading to more people falling.The American Friends Service Committee has been contacted for further comment via its website.It comes after an anti-climbing feature was added to new sections of the barrier being built at Friendship Park between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
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