Guatemalan troops forcibly clear migrant caravan from highway

• Army and police used teargas and riot shields on migrants
• Caravan of about 8,000 left Honduras for US last week

Guatemalan troops with riot shields and truncheons have forcibly cleared a road of hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants who had camped out overnight when authorities barred their caravan from advancing toward the United States.

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