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Guatemala forces stall migrant caravan with tear gas, batons

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VADO HONDO – Guatemalan police and soldiers launched tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock early Sunday.A group of about 2,000 migrants had stopped short of the roadblock the night before.

The roadblock was strategically placed at a chokepoint on the two-lane highway to Chiquimula in an area known as Vado Hondo.

It's flanked by a tall mountainside and a wall leaving the migrants with few options.Some 100 migrants tried to make their way through authorities around 7:30 a.m.

Sunday. The security forces beat them back and deployed tear gas. None made it through and the larger remaining contingent kept its distance during the melee.

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