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Honduran Migrants Met with Tear Gas at Guatemala Border

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   Guatemalan police and soldiers used tear gas and batons to push back
   about 100 Honduran migrants when they tried to pass through a roadblock
   on the border with Guatemala Sunday.

   Many migrants showed visible injuries from batons after the clash with
   Guatemalan troops.

   The migrants were some of roughly 2,000 Hondurans who stopped Saturday
   night behind the roadblock placed on the two-lane highway to Chiquimula
   near the village of Vado Hondo.

   The majority stayed behind Sunday morning when the clashes between some
   members of their group and police began. None of the migrants made it
   through the roadblock.

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