A Texas sheriff who was among the first people to reach two badly injured U.S. Border Patrol agents said he thinks they may have been sideswiped accidentally by a tractor-trailer, not attacked, as President Donald Trump and some others have suggested. Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo said he thinks a tractor-trailer may have accidentally sideswiped the pair, The Dallas Morning News reported. "From the beginning we were radioed to assist in the incident as an injury, not an assault," Carrillo told the newspaper. A Border Patrol union, the National Border Patrol Council, has said the pair was attacked and struck with a rock or rocks. Greg Abbott also have said the two were attacked, with Trump using the incident to renew his call for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

Source: ABC News November 30, 2017 17:22 UTC