In San Antonio, Texas, 51 bodies were discovered in a truck on Monday.
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The dead were discovered after Arbeiter heard one of the few survivors calling for help. The victims are migrants from Latin America. The truck driver claimed to be a survivor but has since been arrested.
BMost of the migrants found dead in an abandoned truck trailer in the United States are women, new information says. Only 12 of the 51 dead were men, said the head of the Mexican migration authority, Francisco Garduño, on Wednesday in Mexico City. A body has not yet been identified. It was unclear whether children were among the dead. Garduño said that 27 of the victims were Mexican, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador.
According to local police, a worker discovered the bodies on Monday evening (local time) after hearing a call for help from the trailer. At least 16 survivors were dehydrated and taken to a hospital with heat exhaustion. According to the fire department of the Texan city, the trailer, which was parked in the heat of around 40 degrees on the outskirts of San Antonio, apparently had neither a working air conditioning system nor water. The victims were allegedly smuggled into the United States, San Antonio is only about 250 kilometers from the Mexican border.
Three suspects in custody
According to Garduño, the truck passed two CBP checkpoints on Monday. The license plates and logos of a Texas company were fake.
The driver said he was a survivor. However, he was identified and – like two other suspects – arrested. Two Mexicans are being investigated. The foreign ministers of Mexico and Guatemala announced that their countries would participate in the investigation.
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