(TAPANATEPEC, Mexico) — Thousands of Central American migrants took a break Sunday on their caravan’s long journey through southern Mexico while vowing to press ahead toward the U.S. border roughly 1,000 miles away. Hundreds more migrants tried to force their way into Mexico at the Guatemala border, and one was reported killed.
The new group of migrants, who called themselves a second caravan, clashed with Guatemalan police while forcing their way through a gate on the border bridge in the town of Tecun Uman and then fought with Mexican officers. Volunteer firefighters said dozens were injured and one man died from a severe head injury apparently caused by a rubber bullet.
At the same time, about 300 Salvadorans departed from San Salvador hoping to make their way to the U.S. as a group.
Some of the migrants in the initial caravan, now estimated at 4,000 people, rested on Sunday in the shade of tarps strung across the town plaza or picked up trash in the southern Mexico town of Tapan..