Immigrant impaled after border fence fall

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Immigrant impaled after border fence fall

Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:54 pm
The Brownsville Herald Brownsville Herald

An undocumented immigrant was hospitalized after being impaled on rebar sticking out of the ground when he fell off the U.S. border fence in Southmost, authorities said.

The incident happened Saturday afternoon.

Brownsville Fire Department Chief Lenny Perez said the 23-year-old man from Mexico was alive and authorities were able to cut the metal bar and take him to a hospital. The man’s condition wasn’t immediately known Wednesday.

“Our EMS was called out to that area by Border Patrol that a young man had fallen,” Perez said. “When they got there he was impaled on a rod. He had fallen from the border wall.”

The fire chief said Medic 3 and Engine 3 responded to the scene.

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