A 5-year-old girl has drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande to enter Texas, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said Tuesday. The girl was attempting to cross the river with her mother Monday, when the current swept her away. The institute said two were from Central America, but did not specify which country. Read: Thousands of migrants headed towards U.S. apply to Mexico for asylum The mother told rescuers she was holding her child, but the current swept her daughter out of her arms. The child’s body was found downstream near Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Four other migrants from South America were also found trapped in the river nearby and taken to safety.

Two men in their 50s died after being hit by a speeding bus while crossing the Jashore-Khulna Highway  in the district's Abhaynagar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased were identified as Subed Ali, 55, and Kubed Ali, 54, both residents of Paba upazila of Rajshahi. The accident occurred around 8.45 pm on the Jashore-Khulna Highway near Prembag School in the upazila when the two men returning from picnic in the Sunderbans alighted from their vehicle and attempted to cross the busy highway. READ: Mother, son killed in Pabna road accident The bus of Rupsha Paribahan hit the duo and sped away, leaving the duo severely injured, eye-witnesses said. Both died of their injuries on the way to hospital. Siddikur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Noapara Highway police station, said the bus was seized. "Efforts are on to arrest its driver and his assistant." READ: Four of family killed in Cumilla road crash