A new group of migrants have left El Salvador to join other United States-bound caravans of Central Americans mostly fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries.
The caravan of more than 300 Salvadoran asylum seekers departed from the capital, San Salvador, on foot, in pickups or on buses on Sunday, weeks after a larger caravan of at least 3,500 Hondurans began a similar journey to the US.
Dozens of the Salvadorans had arrived at the Guatemalan border by Sunday afternoon and were having their documents checked.
The Hondurans, which had left their country in mid-October, are now in southern Mexico, which is hosting some 7,000 US-bound Central American migrants, mostly Hondurans, according to UN figures.
A third caravan of Central American migrants has also been moving through Guatemala.
Also on Sunday, hundreds of migrants in that group — which originally numbered over 1,000 before splitting — broke through a gate at the…