Legless man rescued by Border Patrol agents
Updated Mar 22 2019 06:31PM EDT
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Border patrol agents had to rescue a double amputee from an island in the middle of the Rio Grande River this week.
It happened on Wednesday, March 20. Agents from the Eagle Pass Station marine unit, saw the man by himself in a wheelchair stranded on an island in the center of the river.
Agents went to the island and found out the man was a 37-year-old Guatemalan. The man claimed he crossed to the island on his own, but was unable to continue the crossing to shore.
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