Texas sheriff says 7th body could be tied to shipping container deaths, as ICE opens human smuggling probe
- On Monday, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced a seventh body found in San Antonio is connected to six individuals discovered dead in a Laredo boxcar on Sunday, with authorities investigating a potential human trafficking case.
- The train split in San Antonio, with half traveling to Houston and the other half heading to Laredo, where Webb County Medical Examiner Corinne Stern confirmed hyperthermia as the cause of death.
- Five victims have been identified, including three Mexican nationals and two Hondurans, one of whom was 14 years old, as Homeland Security Investigations leads the probe alongside the Laredo Police Department and Texas Rangers.
- Laredo Mayor Victor Trevino described the incident as a tragedy that "strikes at the center of our humanity," while the Mexican Consulate General assists families and no arrests have been made.
- Despite Union Pacific using inspection portals to detect contraband, human trafficking via trains remains persistent; Salazar noted the prevailing theory suggests the boxcar was opened either to dump a body or allow successful exit.
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From the Union Pacific train, a migrant sent a text message to a family member on Saturday. The car she was on felt very hot, she wrote to her. That day the temperature in San Antonio, Texas, where the vehicle was travelling, grazed 32 degrees Celsius. Authorities estimate that the thermal sensation inside those containers could have reached up to 60 degrees Celsius. San Antonio police were alerted to the woman's text messages, but they did not …
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ussanews.comA horrific discovery inside a Texas boxcar
Six Found Dead in Texas Rail Boxcar Six people were found dead inside a Union Pacific boxcar in Laredo, Texas, after a rail yard employee made the discovery on Sunday. Officials say the deaths are now being looked at as part of a possible human smuggling case. The scene unfolded in a city that sits right on the border and sees heavy cross-border traffic every day. That matters here, because Laredo is one of the biggest ports of entry in the coun…
Mexican authorities confirm 3 of the 6 migrants found dead inside a freight rail container near Laredo were Mexican nationals
The six individuals were discovered Sunday afternoon inside a shipping container at the Union Pacific Railyard near mile marker 13 of Interstate 35 after workers inspected one of the containers.
U.S. federal agents are investigating the discovery of six bodies inside a Union Pacific freight car in Laredo, Texas, as a possible human trafficking case.
Mexicanos y hondureños: esto sabemos de las personas halladas muertas en un tren en Texas
Por Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español Agentes federales de Estados Unidos están investigando como un “posible caso de tráfico de personas” el hallazgo de seis víctimas mortales dentro en un vagón de carga de un tren de Union Pacific en Laredo, Texas, una ciudad ubicada en la frontera entre EE.UU. y México. Las personas, encontradas el domingo por un trabajador de Union Pacific, provienen de México y Honduras, según informaron las autoridades. Se sosp…
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