(The Guardian) Fifty migrants found dead inside abandoned Texas trailer truck
The Guardian’s Ashifa Kassam and Ramon Antonio Vargas report: Fifty suspected migrants were found dead and at least a dozen others were hospitalized after being found inside an abandoned tractor-trailer rig on Monday on a remote back road in south-west San Antonio, officials have said.
The discovery in Texas may prove to be the deadliest tragedy among thousands of people who have died attempting to cross the US border from Mexico in recent decades.
A person who works at a building nearby was alerted by a cry for help shortly before 6pm on Monday, police chief William McManus said. Officers arrived to find a body on the ground outside the trailer and a partially opened gate to the trailer, he said.
Initially, authorities said 46 of those inside the trailer were dead. But Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said on Tuesday that 50 people were dead, including at least 22 from Mexico, seven from Guatemala, and two from Honduras.
At least 19 others who died has not been identified, Ebrard said. He added: “We’re in mourning. A huge tragedy. Mexico will join investigations in the US,” which are being coordinated by the US Department of Homeland Security.
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The Guardian’s Ashifa Kassam and Ramon Antonio Vargas report: Fifty suspected migrants were found dead and at least a dozen others were hospitalized after being found inside an abandoned tractor-trailer rig on Monday on a remote back road in south-west San Antonio, officials have said.
The discovery in Texas may prove to be the deadliest tragedy among thousands of people who have died attempting to cross the US border from Mexico in recent decades.
A person who works at a building nearby was alerted by a cry for help shortly before 6pm on Monday, police chief William McManus said. Officers arrived to find a body on the ground outside the trailer and a partially opened gate to the trailer, he said.
Initially, authorities said 46 of those inside the trailer were dead. But Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said on Tuesday that 50 people were dead, including at least 22 from Mexico, seven from Guatemala, and two from Honduras.
At least 19 others who died has not been identified, Ebrard said. He added: “We’re in mourning. A huge tragedy. Mexico will join investigations in the US,” which are being coordinated by the US Department of Homeland Security.
Fifty migrants found dead inside abandoned Texas trailer truck
Mexican foreign minister mourns ‘huge tragedy’ as US investigates effort to smuggle people across border
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