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Ten migrants were swept to their deaths while trying to cross a raging river in the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama. Their bodies were found near the community of Carreto in Panama, the country’s National Border Service said on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of people from South America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world make the dangerous journey between South and Central America, often with the aim of reaching the United States, which lies thousands of kilometres further north. Around 520,000 adults and children used the route last year, according to the United Nations. Panam…