{"id":57022,"date":"2026-05-10T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=57022"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:36:10","slug":"six-people-found-dead-in-boxcar-in-laredo-texas-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=57022","title":{"rendered":"Six people found dead in boxcar in Laredo, Texas, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">May 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Six bodies were found on Sunday in \u200ba train boxcar in Laredo, \u200cTexas, according to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A Union Pacific worker discovered them in a train \u200byard at a remote \u200blocation near the Mexican border, and \u2060police and firefighters later \u200bconfirmed they had died, said Laredo \u200bPolice Investigator Joe Baeza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police have not determined how they died, Baeza said. The \u200binvestigation is ongoing, he \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There were no survivors, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police did \u200cnot \u2060say where the individuals were from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Past instances of multiple deaths in trains and tractor trailers not \u200bfar from \u200bthe \u2060U.S.-Mexico border have involved migrants, including a 2022 \u200bincident in which 53 were \u200bfound \u2060dead in an abandoned truck with malfunctioning air conditioning on the \u2060outskirts \u200bof San Antonio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/six-people-found-dead-boxcar-laredo-texas-police-say-2026-05-11\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Six bodies were found on Sunday in \u200ba train boxcar in Laredo, \u200cTexas, according to police. A Union Pacific worker discovered them in a train \u200byard at a remote \u200blocation near the Mexican border, and \u2060police and firefighters later \u200bconfirmed they had died, said Laredo \u200bPolice Investigator Joe Baeza. Police have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[37270,37268,37269,1298],"class_list":["post-57022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-a-truck-trailer","tag-laredo","tag-six-bodies","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57025,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022\/revisions\/57025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}