{"id":287435,"date":"2026-05-11T02:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:51:11","slug":"dead-bodies-found-inside-union-pacific-boxcar-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287435\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead bodies found inside Union Pacific boxcar in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Laredo Police Department said the scene was active as of late Sunday afternoon, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/six-people-found-dead-boxcar-laredo-texas-police-say-2026-05-11\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">there were no survivors<\/a> inside the boxcar investigated. Ages and genders were not yet determined as of Sunday evening. Union Pacific told Chron the railroad &#8220;is saddened by this incident and is working closely with law enforcement to investigate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death is unknown. High temperatures in Laredo on Sunday reached the high 90s, peaking at around 97 degrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laredo is about 300 miles southwest of Houston. It&#8217;s just five miles across the Rio Grande from Mexico and the city of Nuevo Laredo. It&#8217;s unclear where the train originated and if it was heading anywhere after the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Pacific railyard in Laredo is around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deainc.com\/project\/port-laredo-expansion\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">670 acres<\/a>, one of the larger yards in the U.S. It sits about 15 miles north of downtown Laredo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Laredo Police Department said the scene was active as of late Sunday afternoon, and that there were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1836,1704,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-287435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}