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Woman dies in Nogales after border fence fall

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Nogales police say a 32-year-old Mexican woman fell to her death June 16 after tumbling from a border fence.

Police say a U.S. Border Patrol agent found the woman's body while on patrol. NPD detectives say their preliminary investigation found that she died after falling while crossing intot he U.S. earlier that day. The woman hailed from Juchitepec. 

The body was sent to the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy.