OTAY MESA, Calif. (KGTV) — A man and two women suffered non-life-threatening injuries in an apparent fall from the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Otay Mes Friday.
The three were conscious and breathing when they were taken to hospitals, authorities said.
The conditions of the three patients were not released.
San Diego Fire-Rescue Department personnel were dispatched to the 30- foot-tall wall at 12:12 p.m. Friday to the area between Drucker Lane and La Media Road, department spokeswoman Candace Hadley said.
"Border Patrol agents from San Diego Sector encountered three individuals who appeared to have fallen from the border barrier west of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry after illegally entering the country,'' Border Patrol Agent Eugene Wesley said in a statement.
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