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A SURPRISE snow storm claimed the lives of eight suspected immigrants who died of hypothermia as they tried to cross the US-Mexico border.

Officials from the US Border Control and other agencies rescued more than 50 immigrants in and around the Cleveland National Forest, about 40 miles east of San Diego. But the bodies of eight men, aged between 20 and 32, were found dressed in light clothes and trainers.

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