Fifty people were found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in San Antonio in what marked the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday 22 of the dead were Mexican nationals, seven were from Guatemala and two from Honduras. The home countries of the other 19 victims and how long they were abandoned on the side of the road was not immediately known.
In this aerial view, members of law enforcement investigate a tractor trailer on June 27, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. Of the 16 taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses, 12 were adults and four were children, said Fire Chief Charles Hood. The patients were hot to the touch and dehydrated, and no water was found in the trailer, he said.
Three people were taken into custody, but it was unclear if they were definitively connected with human trafficking, McManus said.
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