MEXICO CITY – A two-year-old migrant boy found abandoned in Mexico earlier this week had left Honduras with his father, a Honduran consulate official said on Friday.
The boy was found in Veracruz state, alone near a truck that carried more than 100 migrants in suffocating conditions, and surrounded by snack wrappers, half-empty water bottles, and trash bags.
Consul Raul Morazan said it was not clear where the father was or how he had been separated from his child.
“It is shocking and surprising,” Morazan, who is based in Veracruz, said. “The question we ask ourselves is why abandon the child.”
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