Body of woman shot by US border agent returns to Guatemala
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June 1, 2018
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The body of a young Guatemalan woman who was shot dead last week by a U.S. border agent near Laredo, Texas, arrived Thursday in her home country and was turned over to her grieving parents.
Lidia and Gilberto Gomez received the white coffin carrying their daughter Claudia Patricia Gomez in the Guatemalan capital. Its cover partway lifted, they kissed and caressed the glass pane in which she was encased.
They were taking the body later to her hometown of San Juan Ostuncalco, outside the western highland city of Quetzaltenango, for a wake and burial.
Gomez, 19, who studied...
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