{"id":287497,"date":"2026-05-11T04:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287497\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:18:22","slug":"six-people-found-dead-in-boxcar-in-laredo-texas-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287497\/","title":{"rendered":"Six people found dead in boxcar in Laredo, Texas, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Noel Randewich<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Six bodies were found on Sunday \u200cin a train boxcar \u200cin Laredo, Texas, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Union \u200bPacific worker discovered them in a train yard at a remote location near the Mexican border, and \u200cpolice and firefighters \u2060later confirmed they had died, said Laredo Police Investigator \u2060Joe Baeza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not determined how they died, Baeza said. The \u200binvestigation is \u200bongoing, he \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were no \u200csurvivors, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police did not say where the individuals were from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Past instances of multiple deaths in trains and tractor trailers not far \u200cfrom the U.S.-Mexico border \u200bhave involved migrants, \u200bincluding a \u200b2022 incident in which \u200c53 were found dead \u200bin an \u200babandoned truck with malfunctioning air conditioning on the outskirts of \u200bSan Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200cby Noel Randewich in San \u200bFrancisco; Editing by Sergio Non \u200band Tom Hogue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Noel Randewich May 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Six bodies were found on Sunday \u200cin a train boxcar \u200cin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,105391,7686,105390,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-287497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-firefighters","tag-joe-baeza","tag-laredo","tag-police-investigator","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287497","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=287497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}