A 4-year-old girl abandoned by migrant smugglers has been rescued by US border agents after she was found sitting alone on a riverbank in Texas.
The little girl was found on the bank of the Rio Grande River, Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.
Border patrol said she had been carried across the US border by a smuggler and then left alone.
Her parents were nowhere to be found, authorities said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how long the girl had been sitting by the river.
“The child is now safe thanks to our agents,” Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens said alongside a photo of an agent cradling the girl.
It comes just weeks after another 4-year-old Nicaraguan child died when her mother accidentally dropped her while trying to cross the Rio Grande River.
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