The authorities of the town of San Antonio, on the border of Texas (USA) with Mexico, They located this Monday, June 27, more than forty bodies inside the trailer of a truck.
Although the local police have not been able to confirm the exact number of deceased, it is believed that they were migrants who could have crossed the border between Mexico and the US, crowded into the vehicleadvanced the local newspaper ‘The Texas Tribune’.
The discovery occurred on the outskirts of San Antonio, near the Lackland Air Force Base, where, in addition to the deceased, they also found dozens of people who needed urgent medical assistance.
The authorities confirmed the event to Efe, although they did not specify the nationalities of the deceased.
In addition, they called a press conference to report the incident, as more details become known.
(Read more: ‘El Hueco’ towards the United States, more dangerous than ever).
For now, The Mexican consulate in San Antonio reported that it will provide support to all “Mexican nationals if there are any”.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard also referred to the event. “Tragedy in Texas. Asphyxiated in the box of the trailer reportedly. Consul en route to the point. Condolences to the victims and their families. We still do not know nationalities,” he advanced.
According to the local press, the area where the trailer was located It is a common place where vehicles stop to unload immigrants after crossing the border clandestinely.
(Keep reading: ‘Minors from Central America prefer not to migrate’, details an NGO study).
It is important to mention that temperatures in San Antonio reached 40 ºC this Monday. Therefore, the victims would have suffocated to death.
Authorities believe the truck driver abandoned the vehicle with all passengers inside minutes before police investigated its contents.
Local press and non-government sources claim that 42 bodies have been found on a road in the city of San Antonio, not Texas, in the United States, recently. A preliminary suspeita is human trafficking. pic.twitter.com/vvLNPqM1jh
– Renato Souza (@reporterenato) June 28, 2022
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