Texas Woman Faces Charges Linked to 6 Shipping Container Deaths
Authorities suspect hyperthermia after six migrants, including a 14-year-old boy, were found dead in a shipping container, officials said.
- On Thursday, authorities confirmed six migrants, including a 14-year-old boy from Honduras and Mexico, were found dead in a Laredo, Texas, rail yard shipping container during a human smuggling operation.
- Laredo Police Chief Miguel Rodriguez said the victims were placed in the container on Saturday in Del Rio, Texas, two days after the train departed from Long Beach, California.
- The Webb County medical examiner suspects hyperthermia caused the deaths, a finding Laredo Mayor Victor Trevi repeated; the train arrived Sunday in Laredo after traveling near San Antonio, where a Union Pacific employee discovered the bodies.
- Federal authorities are leading the investigation into the smuggling operation. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Monday that a separate body of a 49-year-old Mexican man found in the region was likely connected to the same train.
- Smuggling on trains crossing the border remains a significant concern, with Border Patrol agents encountering about 40 people daily in Laredo during March. Last year, two smugglers received life sentences for the nation's deadliest smuggling attempt.
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Six migrants found dead inside a rail boxcar in Laredo, Texas, died of severe heat stroke before the train arrived in the city, according to officials. The victims include a 14-year-old. The victims were discovered Sunday afternoon after the Union Pacific train arrived in Laredo, near the U.S. border with Mexico. Laredo Police Chief Miguel A. Rodriguez Jr. said officers and firefighters responded at 3:21 p.m. after a call came through emergency …
Six illegal immigrants, including 14-year-old, found dead in shipping container along southern border
Texas officials announced six illegal immigrants were found dead Monday inside a shipping container along the southern border, and officials pointed to extreme heat as the likely cause.The Webb County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed three men, one woman and a 14-year-old boy were found dead at the Union Pacific Railyard in North Laredo.The sixth person has not yet been positively identified.Investigators said the deceased originated from Mex…
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