The six peoplefounddead inside a Union Pacific boxcar in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday are believed to be illegal aliens from Mexico and Honduras.
According to the Laredo Police Department, a Union Pacific employee discovered at least six dead bodies in the cargo train car.
Temperatures soared into the upper 90s in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday.
Laredo, Texas, borders Mexico and has one of the largest ports of entry in the US.
The six people died of hyperthermia, or heat stroke.
The deaths are being investigated as part of a human smuggling operation.
Federal agents are investigating the deaths of six people thought to be immigrants found inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the border with Mexico in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday as a “potential human smuggling event.”
A Union Pacific employee found the bodies of six people inside a shipping container Sunday afternoon, said Jose Baeza, the Laredo Police Department public information officer.
Dr. Corinne Stern, the Webb County medical examiner, is conducting autopsies and completed one for a 29-year-old Mexican woman who died of hyperthermia, or heat stroke.
“I’ve ruled that an accidental death,” she said, adding that she believes the others also died from heat stroke but could not rule on their cause of death until she completes their autopsies.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
