Mexico detains soldier who shot dead Guatemalan migrant

Elvin Mazariegos was shot dead on Monday on a checkpoint erected by the Mexican army to stop migrants from going north.

Mexican officials have said a soldier who shot dead a Guatemalan migrant was “at the disposal” of the Mexican justice system after an investigation found that he had fired as a result of an “erroneous reaction”. Mexico’s Secretary of Defense Luis Sandoval said the migrant, whom local media identified as Elvin Mazariegos, 30, was killed on Monday afternoon in a remote area in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Sandoval said the victim had approached the checkpoint in a car, but then braked and reversed in an “attempt to flee”. He said a Mexican soldier then fired at the vehicle, in “an erroneous reaction”.