The eight-year-old migrant boy who died on Christmas Day while being held by US officials at a border facility in New Mexico, has been identified. Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8, from Guatemala, was taken to the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center, in Alamogordo, on Monday night after suffering nausea and vomiting. He was dead just a few hours later, becoming the second migrant child to lose their life while being detained by authorities this month. The agency reports that he was given prescriptions for amoxicillin and Ibuprofen before being released from the facility on Monday afternoon. Once home she was laid to rest, two weeks after the Guatemalan girl died in US custody.

Source: Daily Mail December 25, 2018 18:46 UTC